. 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 . w owners, who admireand cultivate these long cords, keep themtied up in bundles on the dogs back, butso unnatural and unsightly a method ofburdening the animal is not to be com-mended. Corded Poodles are very showy, andfrom the remarkable appearance of thecoat, attract a great deal of public atten-tion when exhibited at shows ; but they havelost popularity among most fanciers, andhave become few in number owing to
. 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 . w owners, who admireand cultivate these long cords, keep themtied up in bundles on the dogs back, butso unnatural and unsightly a method ofburdening the animal is not to be com-mended. Corded Poodles are very showy, andfrom the remarkable appearance of thecoat, attract a great deal of public atten-tion when exhibited at shows ; but they havelost popularity among most fanciers, andhave become few in number owing to theobvious fact that it is impossible to makepets of them or keep them in the reason of this is that the coat must, fromtime to time, be oiled in order to keep thecords supple and prevent them from snap- ping, and, of course, as their coats cannotbe brushed, the only way of keeping thedog clean is to wash him, which with a cordedPoodle is a lengthy and laborious , the coat takes hours to dry, andunless the newly washed dog be kept ina warm room he is very liable to catchcold. The result is, that the coats ofcorded Poodles are almost invariablv dirtv,. mrs. w. bowers CH. CANNON HILL BEAUTY BY THE DIE GRACE DARLING. BRED BY MADAME DAGOIS. and somewhat smelly. The exhibitionof this variety has also been much dis-couraged by the action of the Kennel Club indisqualifying, on the objection of an ex-hibitor, all the corded Poodles at one show(except those of the objector) on the groundthat their coats were oiled. This rule of the Kennel Club involvesthe necessity of every trace of oil being care-fully removed every time a corded Poodleis exhibited at a show, and consequently thevariety is becoming less and less one time it was suggested that cordedsand non-cordeds were two distinct breeds,but it is now generally accepted that thecoat of every well-bred Poodle will, if allowed,develop cords. Curly Poodles, on the other hand, have 132 THE NEW BOOK OF
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