THE KENNEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3524, 27 September 1921, Page 20

THE KENNEL.

By

Terror.

Fanciers and breeders of dogs are cordially int vited to contribute to this column. “Terror” will ! endeavour to make this department as interesting and up-to-date as possible, but in order to do this he must have the co-operation of his readers, hence he trusts this invitation will be clieerluliy responded to. .sin effects the purpose, but the authorities do not recommend it. Perhaps they think it is not “cricket.” Ashmont, in Kennel Secrets, says that in order that puppies may be kept down in size and weight, they 1 must be fed with great nicety. They must 3 rely largely on milk, and the quantity of > tliis even must be restricted as nearly as possible to the actual requirements of the body as it then stands, for excess would favour increase in the size of the frame and amount of flesh. He says: “Give new > miik for the first month or two, and when they are strong and active use skim milk or butter-milk largely, and they can i generally-be allowed these at frequent in- . tervals.” Enlarging on this subject Ash- > mont says:—“ln feeding toys and other varieties which it is desirable to keep down in weight, breeders must have before them the fact that the animal foods, milk and meat, alone and uncombined with other substances, tend to produce firmness of flesh with an absence of superfluous fat ; while, on the other hand, vegetable foods, and particularly the starches, favour the laying on of fat. They must also bear in inmd that animal foods abound in the materials for bone and muscle building ; and while in moderate quantities they do but little more than meet the wear and tear of the body and keep the muscles firm and complete, if they are gi\ n in excess th"v lend decidedly to increase the size of the bony structure and amount of muscle or flesh.'' That there may be no mistake these physiological facts arc sirnpli- ' fled and dressed for practice: "'Give puppies tile animal foods, meat and milk in moderate quantities only, and the.- will 1,--likely t.> keep down in bone and laus-lr ; give them vegetable fond® in large quantities and the tendency will me,,'-,- p, fatten; give animal food? in large quantities and Hip chances are many that the puppies so fed will in consequence increase rapidly in bone and muscle." I would remind “Inquirer,” however, that with animals kept 1 down in size bv method of feeding their mall ness is nit acquired characterf isl ic and e not mb rite I. and igequenllv ir bred I from that eiiaia -ter i unf no.u-rsa is I v transmitted to their offspring. The only way la ge{ a strain of small dogs ito breed (■•ad biliously bv selection from t}> sma'lest Dr A. E. faselberg. Omkonni Home, l Wailsli. ha- j list re-cived Ivck his Coel.,.|’ bitch Nell Pointer f Vogel Gunner ox Mio Trisail, from a veil t . p, Ma ip andV Sontnborn Held mel. Hr Pynn' - bin. k - a her Intcli has he-;i oil a stud visit to Mr Percy KomenTs wellknown black cocker, Waifaki Oarkie Mi j Pome.il reports that he is getting quitf a lot of inquii i< l s for I his ring, o Mr Eomeril is mating ins co'oured ! I |. ]<. r bitch. Wait ai.i I Vile 0.-- to a line \ filing • oV.urcd dog of Mr Duncan Gillie's.

from which lie hopes to breed a few more good ones. JleL' lust litter turned out exceptionally well, quite a number of winners being amongst them. Sir lvench, a member of the committee of the AYanganui Kennel Club, was in Dunedin last week on a visit. Mr lvench is a keen fancier of Kish terriers, and did the rounds of a number of kennels. He was very pleased with several of the dogs he saw, especially Mr W. Henderson's young Irish r icier dog, Eavndon liandit. lie wishes me to thank the several members of the Otago Ivoimel Club for the trouble they went to in driving him around the various sights. —Mr George Bundy’s (Ashburton) Irish terrier bitch, Gipsy Grogan, lias been on a- visit to \Y. Henderson's Karndon Bandit. —Even in remote days the dog was distributed over a very wide area of the earth. “There is evident e,” stales a contirbutor to “The Royal Natural .History,” edited bv Richard l.ydokkor, “that several breeds existed during prehistoric periods —that is to say, during the iron, bronze, and polished stone epochs. Thus in Denmark there was one race, its the stone epoch, succeeded by a larger one in the bronze age, and by a still larger breed in the newer iron age. Again during the polished stone period in Switzerland the inhabitants of the country had a medium-sized dog which appears to have possessed characteristics common to hounds and setters, or spaniels; its skull being markedly distinct from those of both the wolf and the jackal. In the bronze period this lake dog was succeeded by a larger kind, probably very similar to the one we have already noticed as existing in Denmark during the same period.”