. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. THE WELSH TERRIER. 377 the type required, they often occupied prominent positions in the prize lists, to the detriment of the pure bred article. The great danger was in their being used to any large extent at the stud, and of the breed being thereby contaminated. The steps, therefore, of the weU-wisher of the pure article seemed always to be dogged by the mongrel, so-called, Old English Terrier ; wherever he w
. The new book of the dog; a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment. Dogs. THE WELSH TERRIER. 377 the type required, they often occupied prominent positions in the prize lists, to the detriment of the pure bred article. The great danger was in their being used to any large extent at the stud, and of the breed being thereby contaminated. The steps, therefore, of the weU-wisher of the pure article seemed always to be dogged by the mongrel, so-called, Old English Terrier ; wherever he went he could not get away from him. If he exhibited at a show where the classes were given for the two breeds jointly, his enemy being, in most cases as aforesaid, the better-looking terrier, beat his head off; if he showed in classes given only for his own breed, there again did he find the spurious article, coolly calling itself by the name of his own breed, again getting the best of him ; if he did not show at all—well, it meant a bloodless victory for his rival, and that his breed as a show animal would assuredly die out altogether. The Press, the judge, the dog world generally, "went for " the Welsh Terrier ex- hibitor hot and strong ; they ridiculed his dog, laughed at him, gave him all sorts of gratuitous advice. A dog with a head like that would never do any good. Why not introduce foreign blood to improve his points ? All other breeds had been bene- fited in like manner—why not him ? Looking back on these years, one can readily recognise what a crisis the breed was, at that time, passing through—a crisis, indeed, rendered none the less serious from the fact that some of the old owners were inclined to—and did, in fact—desert the colours and become proselytes of the mon- grel. It was just at this time that the Welsh Terrier Club rose to the occasion, and in doing so unquestionably saved the breed from utter annihilation. A rule was passed that in fut
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