. 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 WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 349 show where a terrier with marvellously straight legs and great bone was very badly treated by a judge (of smooths), and when asked the reason why, his reply was " Oh, her legs are so ; As a fact, the hair had got ruffled up on the legs, as of course it is always likely to do ; the judge had never handled the terrier, and one pass of the hand down the leg. would
. 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 WIRE-HAIR FOX-TERRIER. 349 show where a terrier with marvellously straight legs and great bone was very badly treated by a judge (of smooths), and when asked the reason why, his reply was " Oh, her legs are so ; As a fact, the hair had got ruffled up on the legs, as of course it is always likely to do ; the judge had never handled the terrier, and one pass of the hand down the leg. would at once have corrected his misap- prehension, and have revealed a pair of " props" like unto those of a perfect Fox- hound, and this it was surely his duty to find out. As to point num- ber five. The wire- hair has had a great advertisement, for better or worse, in the extraordinarily promi- nent way he has been mentioned in connec- tion with " faking " and trimming. Columns have been written on this subject, speeches of inordinate length have been delivered, motions and resolutions have been carried, rules have been promulgated, etc., etc., and the one dog mentioned throughout in connection with all of them has been our poor old, much maligned wire-hair. He has been the scapegoat, the subject of aU this brilliancy and elo- quence, and were he capable of understanding the language of the human, we may feel sure much amusement would be his. There are several breeds that are more trimmed than the wire-hair, and that might well be quoted before him in this connection. There is a -vast difference between legiti- mate trimming, and what is called " ; All dogs with long or wire-hair or rough coats naturally require more attention, and more grooming than those with short smooth coats. For the purposes of health and cleanliness it is absolutely necessary that. such animals should be frequently well groomed. There is no necessity, given a wire-hair w
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