THE KENNEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2714, 21 March 1906, Page 31

THE KENNEL.

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tribute Items to this colmnn. ""Terror '• will endearour to male bli department as Interesting and up-to-date as postiblr. but in order to do tbts he oiuit hive the co-oDCr&tion of hi* refcd^rs ' hence be trusts this invitation will be cheerful!/ reajionded to;.' — The Waitaki Collie Dog Club advertises its grand challenge meeting on May 10 and 11. Splendid prizes are offered, and the programme includes all the usual and most attractive items appertaining to a collie field trial. —Mr C. Pritchard, late of Birmingham, ■who judged the oolMe classes fit the WellingvOn Kennel Club show last year, has been asked to officiate in the same capacity at the forthcoming Victorian Dog and Poultry Societies' chow, to be held at Melbourne at the beginning of July. It is not yet certain that Mr Pritchard will be able to obtain the necessary leave- to enable him to accept the proferred position, which will be a pity, as the oftener gentlemen of Mr Pritchard's experience are called upon to act 39 judges the better it will be for the breed in which we are all interested and of which so many valuable specimens will shortly arrive in^New Zealand. — A very important sale of fox terriers waa beki ia England recently. Mr Goorge

Porter, of New York, purchased a trio of wire-haired bitches of the best quality pro-, curable in Great Britain. Amongst them' is the champion bitch Dusky Siren, who is con.sk 1 2red by experts to be the best wirehaired bitch in England. The price paid to Miss Hatfield for this bitch was £220. Mr C. Houlker's Hope is another of the trio purchased by Mr Porter. The price paid for her was £150. The third is Dusky Courtly, a splendid bitch, previously owned by Mr F. Redmond. The price has not transpired; but, as she recently beat Dusky Siren for the 50-guinea cup at the Fox Terrier Club show, no doubt the figure would be high. The reason of this exten- , sive purchase is that Mr G. Thomas, of New York, recently threw out a challenge to match four of his wire-hairs against any four in America for a sum of £100. Mr Porter had a really good dog, and the acquisition of these three bitches should certainly give him an excellent chance of , annexing the £100. The match was to have been decided at New York show, held between 12th and 15th February. — Not only have we lady exhibitors of dogs, lady judges, etc., but according to Our Dogs they in Great Britain have a lady owner of a kennel of greyhounds, and these are of no mean pretensions. The paper mentioned thus refers to the lady and her kennel: — "Miss Ruth Fawcett, a niece of the Fawcett from whose kennel at Sanghall i no fewer than five Waterloo Cup winners "have been sent, owns a very useful kennel of greyhounds, and at Basingstoke, Flue Faker (Fiery Furnace— Fals O'Faythe), her nominee in the Sherborne Stakes, was one of the dividers. Miss Fawcett, of course, is fortunate in being given saplings by her uncle, but she not only walks her puppies, but superintends their training, and on the coursing field there is no greater enthusiast. At Basingstoke, the scene of her latest triumph with a home-trained puppy, the * writer once saw her receive a legular ovation when she ran out to pick up a greyhound which won the stake outright after his owner had refused to consider a division. Losers and winners alike were wildly excited, one stalwart bookie declaring that the little maiden — for Miss Fawcett was then a mere girl in a short frock — was a 'real sportsman.' It is not at all unlikely, by the way, that Rhymthical Footsteps, an \;ndefeated puppy from the Gloucestershire young lady's kennel, will fill a nomination in the Waterloo Cup next month. What a scene there would be were Submarine — Lady Sefton's nominee — and Miss Fawcett's puppy to meet in the deciding course ." — Colonel Tom Price writes as follows : — " The following may interest your readers, and I would be glad if you would say if a similar case has been heard of. The facts are : I have two Irish terrier bitches, full sisters in blood, but separate Jitters. The younger had six pup 3 eight months ago. She came in season about a week before her elder sister, and was not served, being carefully locked up and on the chain. The elder bitch was served, and pupped seven pups on the afternoon of February 13. Now comes the freak. The younger bitch spent all the night digging to get into the outhouse where the mother and pups were shut in, howling and making an awful row all night. Next day, when I opened the door to let the mother out, in rushed the* .dry bitch," tackled the mother, and they had a fearful, inseparable battle, the dry bitch winning the day. She then carried off five of the seven, took them to a corner of the outhouse, and set to work to nurse them. As she was dry I let her have them for sii hour or so to calm her, and then put them back to the mother. Immediately the former racket commenced, so I gave the dry bitch a pup that I meant to destroy, just to calm her off. This was on the 14th. I found in the- morning the pup going strong, and the bitch full of milk! I gave her a, second pup, and since the 14th— i.e.. a week to-day— she has entirely reared them, and ( could take on the whole litter. Have you ever heard of a similar case? I can guarantee that she was not in pup, and that at the time of her sister's whelping her pups she was dry. How do you account for the extraordinary display of nutrition on her part?" With respect to Colonel Price s communication, which is interesting, and will afford surprise to many persons interested in dogs, I (" Wattlebark" in the Australasian) may say that the power of a bitch lo suckle puppies, although withotit having given birth to puppies herself, is ' not unknown to breeders. This peculiar effort of Nature will no doubt be news to I many, and (consequently Colonel Price s letter will be the mean 3of awakening interest in the subject. —In a recent number o1o 1 The Boudoir there appears the following anecdote : —His Majesty is known to be a strong advocate of the 10 minutes' sermon. I remember a good story used to be told of him in the • days when he was only Prince of Wales, and the sermons at Balmoral were noted for their earnestness, dulness, and length. A certain collie invariably attended the services, and behaved with great decorum. One Saturday evening a noted- bcotcn preacher of great power and great verbosity arrived at the castle, and during the evening our diplomatic "Defender of the Faith said that some time previously thoy had a sermon so long that before its conclusion the dog arose, yawned in the divine s face, and marched out. "How we envied that dog " concluded the Prince. The next morning the sermon was. so «»*"«»*£ short that Queen -Victoria sent to the , minister's room after service to a s k if ne W€ -l!Tthe g Rue Vaneau, in Paris, there is a Lofipital devoted solely to the cure ot do* and cat ailments. If your dog is suffering from cataract ov youi beautiful Persian from a bad throat. Dr Lepinay and his assistants will do all that is possible- for the animal <w!th the aid of modern instruments,. Dr Lepinay. who has epecialisel in tlris work, now has a complete clinical surgery. Some animals, of course, arrive at the Burgery in a hopeless condition ; they are therefore mercifully put out of their misery in an asphyxiating machine known as the "cynoctone." Any animal, however, that is at all curable is treated or operated upon with the greatest care. Cats allow themselves to be operated upon with surprising calm- ' nees, and punctures or injections of serum are now quite easily made by the operators at the surgery. The throat troubles to which cats are peculiarly liable are exa- [ mined 1 by means of the phoneudoseppe. This is an apparatus fitted with a sensitive vibrating plate encaeed in guttapercna, . ■ wl'ich magnifies the noises made by the j organs of the animal's throat to the ears . of the operator, the sound being transmitted : through tubes of india-rubber. In Germany ■ there is a similar institution, where poultry ' are treated ac pationfe^, and nursed back to health. — Th« Fe&ttaged &pd £&mcl Worlds

(Sydney) supplies the information oontaineoT. ii the two following paragraphs:— 1 ___ - f The well-known imported fox terrier fio~J Dancing Buck, by "Daddy, from Daa^ avay, purchased from, Mr William Hemifc ton, of Sydney, some three years ago by Mr J. Hunter Brown, of Brisbane, Queens* land, has again taken up his raartez' neatf Sydney, having been purchased by Mr Efr Moees, ivau, a few weeks ago. Recently a T I Mr J. H. Brown's dog& were put' up fot sale at auction, amongst the number beiug Buck, Linden Liberty, and eeyeral other good terriers, all of which, with the exception of Dancing Buck, were knocked? dc,wn at ridiculously low prices. Several New South Wales fanciers have, since th«" sale.^ been angling after the "Redmon^ dog," and we are now given to undereteno that Mr Moses has secured the Bon oi Daddy and Danceaway by private purchase*, It is said that Mr Hamilton's old favouritr has much improved since his exit from th« % ' Linden Kennele, aaid his purchase by 6ucfc - a shrewd fancier as Mr Moees should comfl' as a welcome surprise to admirers of th 3 breed, and fully testify to the value £ . Totteridge blood to the foxterrierdom oi New South Wales. The death i& announced, from gastritis", of the well-known' fox terrier dog, South* bro Quest. This beautiful little^ dog was tho property of Mr H. Moses, juu., of Ash? field, and was bred' by the late Mr Guy Bocthby, the famous novelist. Quest vas by the celebrated eire Donnington. from. Sunbury Bee, and since his arrival in New' South Wales has done much for the for , terrier in Australia. He was the sire of the well-knotvn Glendon' Chief, whose dam was Dame Scandal (imp.), and his gran* children include such sterling terriers i^ Glendon Model. Glendon Major, Glendoi* Magpie (dam. of Champson Glendon Pride), and others Mr Mose6 may find it no easy matter* to replace such a leauTifully-bred little dog, whose pedigree included such illustrious lerriers ac Dooiinie. Divorce, Pitcher, Despoiler, Visto, Dinah Morris, Venio. St. Leger. and other celebritier of the past decade. It may be presumed that Mr Moss's late- venture. Champion Dancing Buck, will now occupy the benci> of the deceafod Quest at the Glendon Kennels. — We- have often heard of the zeal of the railway porter, but never was one more zealous in the pursuance of his duty than Ihe ticket inspector who, on glancing at the beautifully-moulded head of a Pomeranian lying on a. lady's knee, politely remarked, "Youi dog ticket, madam?" The lady picked up her muff with its admirable imitation of a dog's head, and the crestfallen official, softly closing the door, retired precipitately. — Frank F. Dole, proprietor of the Ed^/ewood Kennels of New Haven, recently sold to President Roosevelt foi ' Miss - Alic«Roosevelt, his crack bull terrier EdgevvoodS , Seymour", and to the President for one of .his sone the well-known bull ■ terrier, Edg«wood Ringmaster, for 150dol each. Seymour is 10 months old, and weighs 3Qlt>. Rmgmastei is two years old,v and weighs 451b. • They are two of the best noteiS terrier? of the Edgewood Kennete. Ties© Ttave been shipped to the White • Hmteev"' Dole Jias sold hie stai Boston terrier" Ladf - Highball to Edna May for 30G0dol.— S. K. Examiner. ' ' ! £800 COLLECTED BY A DOG. * A jet black retriever dog which collects for the orphanage fund of the- London *n<2 South -western Railway has been presented by the committee of the orphana/je with tf fine silver collar, adorned with sewn medals, each of which represents £300,-thW collection of Kis takings up to the end of August having been £700. Since thert he has won from the sympathetic enough to entitle him to an eighth medal. Th» doe was at Ryde during the visit of the French fleet, and wae also very successful during Ascot week. His father was a collector before him. and hie son is now beine trained as his successor. • -^