DOG BEAUTY CULTURE

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1930, Page 8

DOG BEAUTY CULTURE

MANICURED AND SCENTED. More than 2500 dogs—from fragile Griffons weighing only a few ounces to massive St. Bernards weighing several stones—‘-created a pandemonium of barks and whiiles at the Crystal Palaeo when the two-days’ Kennel Club Show was opened, states the “Daily Mail.” All were the choicest products of Britain’s kennels —one of the most; valuable being “Luckystar of Ware,” a blue-roan Cockei" spaniel whose owner, Mr. H. S. Lloyd, of Ickenham, Middlesex, valued him at £3OOO. Cockers led the show in point of numbers, there being 149 animals of this breed on view. Pekingese came next with 125, and Irish setters third > with 10.2. a large section of the Palace had been railed off as a “beauty parlour,” where the dogs, before entering tho judging rings, could be treated to elaborate toilettes. The floor around Was white with powder and the combings of every species.

Toy dogs were displayed in the Concert Hall, where the warmth wa,s greater, and here the beauty culture was still more intensive. Women sprayed their impeccable pets with scent, kept their long coats in curling papers, and manicured their nails. Ono small animal arrived at the show with its four paws neatly tied up in woollen footpads or “boots,” and they regained on until its turn came in the! ring. , I