BREED EXCLUDED.
ALSATIANS AT ROYAL SHOWS. j Tho • Royal Agricultural Society at its Conference in Wellington last week passed ) a remit excluding Alsatian' dogs from Royal Shows in future. A delegate said New Zealand would do well not to oncourago ;the breeding of these dogs, : for oven half-breeds were, not reliable. Ho had a halfbred Alsatian ■sheepdog pup which was very docile, and he had tried to bring it up as a sheep dog. As it got ofter it developed the habit of jumping into the flock and ; knocking the sheep down, and tho next thing it'started mauling them. The only remedy was to take a gun and shoot it. Another delegate mentioned an instanco of an Alsatian dog. which crushed the heads of AO sheep with one bite each.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20603, 30 June 1930, Page 10
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