SHEEP DOG NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3098, 30 July 1913, Page 33

SHEEP DOG NOTES.

By Terror,

Dear “Terror,”—-I notice a letter in the Witness of July 9 signed "Charles Patterson,” in which he sets forth that the great breeder Border Boss left the winners Boss Junior and Titus Again. It would Ire interesting to readers if Air Patterson would let us know how many pups Border Boss left while at stud. Prom all accounts he must have left a good many, and. if the two dogs named above are all that are worth writing about, then the percentage is certainly not large. Ho cannot claim all the credit for Boss Junior, as Ins dam Lochiel Jed was bred by Mr Thomas Robertson, late of Cave, now of North Canterbury, from his imported dog and bitch Mess and Jupp, and a full brother of Lochiel Jed won the North Island championship yarding event of 1912. The dam has a larger claim than Border Boss to the winnings of Boss Junior. Border Boss was brought out and greatly advertised, which his work hero did not warrant, as he failed, so I am told, to finish his course in a yarding event at Mosgiol, where he was unplaced. Mr Robertson's dogs, on the other hand, came out leaving no flowery performance behind them, merely selected for natural-heading hill dogs, which they have sustained, besides leaving a champion winner and several trial dogs. If dogs without any great reputation can do what Mr Robertson’s have done, we naturally, expect something very good from dogs with great pedigrees, and I.ammerlaw Dan will require to be an improvement on his half-brother even to beat ordinary dogs.—l am, etc.. Fair Pi,ay.