KENNEL NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 21624, 20 January 1934, Page 23

KENNEL NOTES

[By Tail-waggek.] A visit .to Mr J. E. Jones’s Irish setter kennels proved most interesting. The dog Erin Doone is by Pride of Enn from cli. Lorna Doone, and is about a year and nine months old. He is a bit off colour at present, but is a very fine dog without a doubt. In a few months’ time, when he has attained his full growth and the handsome coat and leathering that goes with it he will be hard to beat. Mr Jones has chosen his place of abode well. A few steps take him •to almost unlimited open country, a most necessary adjunct to sporting dog kennels. Sailor, as the dog is called, has a full brother in Dunedin in Air H. Hungerford’s Major Doone, another good one. Their breeder, Mr C. H. Hudson, of Auckland, may well be proud of them. Mr Jones's bitch is also a North Islander, having been bred by Mr B. Duley in his Inglestone kennels at Lower Hutt. She is by All Red trom eh. Molly Bawu, and is registered as Inglestone Stella. So far she has not been shown, but she should have no difiiiiv in establishing a reputation for herself once she gets started. She is a really magnificent colour, has a real good head and very expressive dark brown eyes. She is at present rearing a litter of four sturdy dog puppies. Originally there were ten of these babies, but the bitches were destroyed, the one that was kept for future operations deciding a few days later to voluntarily follow her sisters. The four dog puppies, however, are extraordinarily fit, and on breeding should easily hold their own when shown or worked. Irish setters are fast reaching the “ heights ” in New Zealand, especially in the North Island, where such a lot of new blood.has been introduced. Mr Frank Daines, of the Idstone kennels, Palmerston North, has probably done the most in this direction, having imported no less than four of the red dogs. His first two were Idstone Rhu and Caryntyne Catherine, the former eventually proving a first-class sire. About four years ago Mr Daines imported Rheola Pauloina as a puppy from Mrs Ingle-Bepler. and he has been more than successful in every direction. He is by Rheola Paul from ch. Noma, the latter one of England's most famous bitches. His last importation was another bitch from the same kennel as the dog. This is Rheola Brynda-Wag. Another to assist the red setters is Mr G> T. Murphy, of Seatoun. .Wellington, who has imported from Australia and placed at the disposal'of breeders the winning dog, Cornelistone Baron of Ratho, by gd. ch. Wollondilly King —lrish Patrick’s Heiress. Mr W. H. Trengrove, of Featherston, is another of the old brigade who has done a tremendous lot toward- bringing the lovely Irish setter to the pitch of perfection that he has undoubtedly obtained in this country. In addition to breeding and showing Alsatians the Of Leith kennel people are taking up, in no uncertain manner, the "fascinating wire-haired Fox Terriers. As a start the bitch Kidlet of Bisto, imported by Mrs Wall, of the Mahaki. Kennels, m Martinborough, in December, 1932, has been purchased. Kidlet was shown in Christchurch last November, but was beaten by_ a bitch considered by many of the ringsiders to be inferior. Next time out, if put down in proper show condition, and this is. no mean feat with wire-haired dogs, she may walk away with the red card quite easily. Sheris wonderfully bred, and was born in November, 1930. She is a hound-marked, solid-coated little terrier, with a beautiful head, dark terrier eyes, and a really straight front. Well boned and a very nice size .she is something more than highclass. Her sire, Reddep Renown, is a real stud dog, throwing good ones every time. One of his sons is international ch. Wyrecote Black Knight. Renown is by Nedwob Happy Man, ex Warner s Selected, and is a grandson of that famous terrier international ch. Gang Wariby. Kidlet’s dam is My Polly, who is by Dogberry Tip Top from Kewty, Tip Top’s sire and dam being Coronach of Caree and Lady-be-Honest. Other chanipions that figure very closely to Kidlet in her pedigree are ch. Barrington Bridegroom, ch. Chantry Casey, international ch. Crackley Sensational, and ch. Wyche Workman. _ Before coming south she is to be mated to one of Mrs Walls’s imported dogs—namely. Castlecroft Snowstorm. Snowstorm is a first-class' show and stud dog, and is,now almost three years old, ana in his prime. He was bred by Mr H. J. Prosser, from that outstanding stud force ch. Talavera Simonsmall and good. His available record at the English 1931-32 shows is:— Birmingham, judge Mrs M. V. Hughes, two firsts, including the open'. Wolverhampton championship show, judge Mr Fulhvood, first open and best of either sex. Walsall-Terrier Association, judge H. A. Wilson, two firsts. Coventry, judge J. R. Barlow (the Crackley expert), two firsts. , Wolverhampton, judge T. A. Moffat, second open. It will be seen readily enough from these particulars that Austen is going in for something really worth while, and that is the undoubtedly best way if one wishes to make a name for himself in breeding and showing pedigree dogs. As proof positive of the way canine affairs are going ahead down in the south part of New Zealand, as they are in the north, inquiries are continually coming in for dogs. An English Setter and a Scottish Terrier puppy are both to go to a southern town shortly, while no less than three Irish Terriers are to be supplied locally. Fortunately this is the summer, so that breeding operations are in full swing, and all these orders will be filled within the next two or three weeks. The only order that the writer is unable tq fulfill at the moment is one for a Bloodhound. This. I am afraid, is impossible in this country/ just at present anyway. Apart from this small stumbling block everything in the dog world seems to be going along very nicely. Mr A. Hensleigh has in his kennels a lovely litter of whippet puppies by Mr •J. S, Algie’s fawn dog Tasman Flight (Jock-Our Goldie) from the brindle bitch Imateagirl (Lone Star—Peppercorn). There is a most pleasing percentage in this lot—five dogs and one bitch. Mr Hensleigh appeared to have little trouble in disposing of his young stock so that the local club should soon have a batch of new members. In addition to these puppies it is hoped, a bit later on, to nave some more for disposal from the blue brindle bitch Blue Bell, which was sent to Christchurch to Lone Star. This bitch is now domiciled in Mr Bracks’s Lochiel Kennels, and when the puppies are available for disposal every endeavour will be made to mt them into the hands of likely new members. . Half the Dunedin Club s trouble is that members cannot be induced to breed nearly enough puppies to keep the game going, and “ on the build,’ as is the case in all the other racing centres.’ If members would only realise that the success of the club lies in its membership they would breed with their older bitches, when they have finished racing, disposing of the puppies to new owners whenever possible, instead of letting them go to owners in other centres who are rapidly reaping the benefit of our thoughtless actions. Dog Dealer: “ Where-is the dog 1

sold you the other day. Mick?’ Mick: " Oh, the poor baste swallowed a tape measure and died, sorr!’ Dog Dealer (waggishlv) ; “ He died by inches, eh? Mick: ‘ No, sorr, he went round by the house and died-by the yard.”