. The dog book. A popular history of the dog, with practical information as to care and management of house, kennel, and exhibition dogs; and descriptions of all the important breeds. Dogs. CHAPTER LIX The Schipperke HE marked resemblance between the Pomeranian and the schipperke is too obvious to make it necessary to dwell upon the origin of the little Belgian dog. If we divide fox terriers into smooth and wire-haired, and chows and St. Bernards into rough and smooth we might well have done something similar with these two breeds. As to the absence of a tail making a difference between the Po
. The dog book. A popular history of the dog, with practical information as to care and management of house, kennel, and exhibition dogs; and descriptions of all the important breeds. Dogs. CHAPTER LIX The Schipperke HE marked resemblance between the Pomeranian and the schipperke is too obvious to make it necessary to dwell upon the origin of the little Belgian dog. If we divide fox terriers into smooth and wire-haired, and chows and St. Bernards into rough and smooth we might well have done something similar with these two breeds. As to the absence of a tail making a difference between the Pom. and the schipperke, it might, if they all came into the world tailless instead of perhaps ten per cent, of them, the others having to be made tailless like the bob-tailed sheepdogs. The schipperkes run larger than the small Poms as might be expected of a dog whose place in life is uiseful instead of merely ornamental. Strength and activity combined with smartness (in our acceptance of the word) are the characteristics of the schipperke. Although we have only had the schipperke in dog show evidence for some fifteen years the indication is that the history of the dog is already being lost and the latest dog books are drawing somewhat on imagination for facts. The Belgian Schipperke Club was started in 1888, very shortly after the breed was introduced and in 1890 the following history of the dog and its name appeared over the signature of Mr. John Lysen, of Antwerp, the home of the breed. The letter was published in the American Field and was copied into other publications, including the American "Book of the Dog," a work frequently quoted in England since its publication in i8gi, and the statements of Mr, Lysen were never contradicted. "They are always called 'Spits' in Belgium, and if you were to ask a dog-dealer for a 'schipperke' dog, he wouldn't know what you were speak- ing about. The name schipperke was given when a few got up the club, and when,
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