. 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. MR. CLAUDE WOODHEADS CH. BRANDESBURTON MIMOSA BY CH. SLOAN TOSCA. dapple blood into their kennels. Of these dapples Unser Fritz, a small dark silver dapple, was the most successful, and mated to the English - bred dapple bitch Tiger Tessie, sired some wonderful youngsters which competed and more than held their own with the other colours in the ring. It is impossible to enumerate the hundred and one champions
. 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. MR. CLAUDE WOODHEADS CH. BRANDESBURTON MIMOSA BY CH. SLOAN TOSCA. dapple blood into their kennels. Of these dapples Unser Fritz, a small dark silver dapple, was the most successful, and mated to the English - bred dapple bitch Tiger Tessie, sired some wonderful youngsters which competed and more than held their own with the other colours in the ring. It is impossible to enumerate the hundred and one champions and famous winners that have flitted across the stage of life during twenty-five years, or are still living: but the large majority of them trace their pedigrees back to Champions Jackdaw and Pterodactyl, and an examination of the family trees of the most noted Dachshunds of to-day will show how closely they are related one to another. A very serious aspect of the inbreeding craze is the mental deterioration involved ; not only in Dachshunds, but in many other breeds of dogs kept and bred for " fancy " points, and not working qualities. In the case of Dachshunds we have lost grit and gameness to an alarming extent, and even ordinary intelligence, and in these respects the English dog is immeasurably the in- ferior of the German dog. It goes without saying that we have lost stamina too, and I was even told a short time ago by a prominent exhibitor that Dachshunds should not be taken out to exercise on the roads because it made them go unsound ! Shade of Jackdaw, what do you think of that ! A Dachshund that cannot do a day's work on the roads when required is a travesty of what a Dachshund should be. If exercise brings out unsoundness, you must look elsewhere for the fault—to his anatomy. Inbreeding to a specified extent is resorted to, to stamp certain characteristics on a type; but it must be borne in mind that both good and bad points exist, and both may be transmi
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