A NEW DOG.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1306, 8 December 1911, Page 3

A NEW DOG.

NOVELISTS AT THE KENNEL CLUB'S SHOW. Tho Kennel Club opened at the Crystal Palaeo on October 21, the biggest and perhaps tho best show in tho annals of the club. Almost all the fifty varieties of purebred dogs woro well represented, and in these lies the cardinal attraction of the show. iiut in novelty nothing equalled tho nondescript class for foreign and unelassed dogs. Among them is one puppy that deserves peculiar attention. He is tho solo representative of his sort, and has the distinction of possessing a father thought worthy of tho "Zoo." The species is unlike any other. The ears como forward rather like a pig's, the head and faco arc covered with criss-cross wrinkles, nud the neck, which is ve-ry thick, has u dewlap almost like a bull s. The dog, which is about tho size of a small terrier, is bred only in ono district of the Sudan, for the same purpose as the Chinese breed the Chow. The dog is most eugaging, very intelligent and domestic, and will certainly have a great vogue if, according to present intentions, it is bred in England. In tho same class aro a number of minute f-heep dogs from the hhetlands and from North Scotland, winch look ns if they wero bred from hsbiinos or Siberian sleigh-dogs, which happened to bo benched next them. Among tho great dogs nothing was more remarkable than the enormous weight and size of the new Newfoundland dogs, some of which are rapidly developing away from the retriever. It was an innovation to see tho new golden retrievers which Mr. Harcourt popularised included among tho other flat-coated retrievers Among tho terriers, there was remarkable evidence of tho growing popularity of the Sealvhams, whose recognition as a distinct class was strongly urged three years ago in the "Daily Mail," b an d they have wonderfully improved since "recognition. Soino deligntful examples were Sh £] rn > i ho Caches; of Teck. Iho toy dogs, more numerous and more luxuriously housed than evei. ffiado I show to themselves, and their judging IT- the most - crowded Part of th! shon. It was curious to seo some of ~nl,n?L Sp lT l 3 H ms carried f rom their upholstered kennels to the rings i D little iJv$ d i e Ihlch1 hlch 60me of these tors exhibited their faces before tho judges the£ ?tf°™ an < of which there aro many . sinking examples.