KENNEL NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7870, 4 August 1911, Page 7

KENNEL NOTES

(By “Fitzroy.”) OFFICIAL OEGAX OP THE ’WELLINGTON KENNEL CLUB. Correepon-ienco is invited from _ canine fanciers and others interested in this column. Letters will he treated confidentially, and questions answered (through the column) at tho earliest opportunity. Correspondents ars requested to sign their names, but a uom deptomo may also be used if necessary. Letters should reach this office not later than Wednesday for reply in tbe following Friday’s issue

Fanciers will be interested to know that entries for tho Wellington Kennel Club’s Itvcnly-fiftli annual sbow will close to-morrow night. Entry forms and schedules arc available from Messrs dansou Bros., 105 Cuba street. Mr 1* Smith, baker, Itiddiford street, Wellington South; and Mr Clater, mercer, next to Messrs \V liitcombo and Tombs. Ltd-. Lamb ton quay. Entries will be received Dv the sccretarv, Air X'. J. Wright, P.O. "box GOT, Wellington, or at Jauson Eros.’, 105, Cuba street, up till nine o’clock to-morrow night.

A committee meeting of tbo British Bulldog Club of Now Zealand was held in the Beehive Chambers, Courtenay place, on Monday last. Tho president, Air 10. T. Taylor, occupied the chair, and every member of the committee was present. Considerable correspondence was dealt with, among which was—1. A notificatiou from the Wellington Kenned Club stating that Air IC E. Watson, of X’almerstou .North, had been appointed to judge tho bull dogs at tho forthcoming show. Ills appointment met with tho unanimous approval of tho Bulldog Club, several members speaking of his sportsmanlike action in accepting tho position, when ho might easily have been a big competitor. 2. A request from the Wellington Kennel Club for special prizes at the forthcoming show. After discussion it was decided to allot prizes for each of tho following classes: Now Zealand bred bitch. Now Zealand bred dog, novice dogs, open dogs, puppy dog and puppy bitch. Xt was further resolved to offer the club’s special challenge trophy, recently imported from Home, tor competition at the same show. It was decided to allot same to tho best colonial bred dog. 3■ From Mr E. 11. Bowers, secretary British Bulldog Club, asking for a special prizo for their groat annual show, to bo held this year in Edinburgh. It was unanimously resolved to donate a trophy for same, tho cost not to exceed Xo ss. It was decided to hold tho annual general meeting on the second night of tho show,. August 24th, to enable visiting members to attend same.

Distemper everyone knows who keeps dogs, and those purchasing often ask if tho puppy is over distemper. If tho food given tho growing puppy is well cooked, and comfortable kennels provided, with judicious treatment, there is no absolute necessity for any dog to have distemper, and if ho gets it it will bo in a very mild form. Many a puppy gets distemper at. shows, and the disease is at times difficult to manage when neglected. Great caro should be taken to at onco isolate tho puppy. If not, there is no doubt it will attack tho whole kennel. The first symptoms of distemper are great lassitude and dulness in tho eyes, which become bloodshot, and a disinclination for exercise, loss of appetite, indications of fever, thirst, alternate fits of heat and shivering, a dry cough, a hot dry noso, sneezing when brought from tho kennel into fresh air, the bowels relaxed, sometimes constipated, tho eyes in tho morning gummed With- a thick, tenacious matter, and generally tho unmistakable symptoms of loss of strength and condition. Remove the dog to a clean, dry, and wellventilated place—cleanliness must be strictly attended to; change tho bedding every morning; rest being essential, do not disturb the patient; clean the eyes and nose regularly with Condy's fluid, and disinfect the kennel. Tho food must bo light and nourishing, snob as boiled oatmeal, with milk or beef tea; if purged, boiled flour or arrowroot, or a little port wine. If tho breathing is laboured and short, apply at once to the side turpentine spnnlded on flannel wrong out in hot water. During the whole_ course the dog must have easily-assimilated foods. There are so many remedies made up by different chemists and submitted to the public that often dog-breeders do not know how to act. One breeder will say: “I have tried so-and-so mixture and it failed, and now I intend to try another remedy.’’ However, the following should be given a thorough trial—Say, puppy six months old, if bowels are, moderately open, loz tincture of cinchona bark, 20 minims liquid extract of yellow cinchona bark, 14dr tincture of nux vomica; water to Soz. Dessertspoonful three times a day.

At the Dunedin fanciers’ show yesterday Mr J.,W. Thomson’s imported wirehaired fox-terrier, Rocksalt, won right through his classes and took tho challenge certificate. Mr P. Regan’s Sardonyx captured all tho smooth-coated fox-terrier classes.

A very fine collection of trophies are offered for competition at the Wellington Kennel Club’s annual show. The Irish Terrier Club of Now Zealand, Auckland, have recently donated a trophy, valued at £3, for the best Irish terrier dog in tho show, to bo won three times, but not more than twice by tho same dog. Further trophies are forthcoming and fanciers should not miss the opportunity of competing.

The Fox Terrier Club of Wellington’s fine set of trophies, to he competed for at tho coming Wellington show, and which wore last week displayed in a Willis street shop window, have now been transferred to a window in Lambton quay, where they again are attracting much attention.

I hear that the benefit picture performance, which tho management of the Theatre is tendering the above club, is going to bo a very successful affair, judging by the interest already evinced, and the tickets have been selling well. Tho fact that a series of pictures—especially taken for tho occasion at the coming Wellington Kennel Club's showwill be included in the programme, is sure to prove a great attraction. Wo believe that this is the first time that moving pictures having been taken in New Zealand at any dog show. All lovers of animals—lovers of dogs especially—shonld patronise this benefit performance.