THE KENNEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3525, 4 October 1921, Page 24

THE KENNEL.

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Fanciers an i breeders of ore cordially invited to ccntribuur ‘o ttiis column. "Terror” will endeavour i.> make ‘:..a (inv.it. as interesting un i uti- »• ;■ but in order to do this he must have t .»• v -on-a-v. m:i of his readers, hence he trusts this ujvii.u ilii will be chcerfuUjr responded to. Mr Luke (MacandrowN Bay) had tlio misfortune io lose the whole of tlie litter at bii tll from the. deerhound bitch champion Gloverlca Loyal. These pups wore by Mr K. W. Brown's Henthorlo.i Strath Royal. Mr Crisp has, fanciers will be pleased to hear, got over his operation, and is now progressing favourably. Air I,< ■ versodge, the well-known cocker spaniel breeder, has beer, appointed sole judge fen* the Canteibury Kennel Club show in November. \\ il.ii Ihe wide experience this gentleman has had hi.s awards will 11 o doubt, meet with satisfaction, alllmngh recent, experience leads to the con elusion that all-round judges are not satisfactory. The many Dunedin friends of Messrs G. and V. E. Biltcliff, of the Wairiki Kenno!-, GbiT l church, will be interested in the fact that they have, mated their wire fox terrier batch eh. Dusky Pearl to her kennel mate, that good little dog Speak. Spe.uk, bv l lie way, is a. suggestive name. May we hope that the little Pearly Speaks will have something to say creditable* to themselves and their owners at forthcoming shows.

The death is recorded of Prince, t-ue Irish terrier whose wonderful evidence of devotion to his master earned for him world-wide notoriety during the war. In 1914 Private Brown, of the Staffordshire Regiment, the owner of Prince, went to Prance. A few days later Prince was missed from his home at Hammersmith, and within a fortnight arrived in some unexplained manner in the trenches near Avment-ieres, and found his master. The facts of the dog’s journey were verified by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. —At the Oldham show, England (held at Hollinwood), on the 30lh July, there were 1127 entries in 140 classes, and 12 judges. This show is known as the Royal* Lancashire Agriculture Society’s show, and if entries in other sections compared numerically with those for the dogs it must have been “some” show. The Oldham Kennel Association ran the dog section. Fox terriers are described as positively the best section at this show, providing an entry of 273 in 16 classes. Airedales were close up with 84 in six classes. The next best section were bulldogs, sehipperkes, bull terriers, Irish and Bed-ling-ton terriers; and the worst were retrievers, pointers, collies, Scottish, and Scalyham terriers. Only two mastiffs turned up. —An experienced breeder writes: “In starting in the fancy, if a beginner wishes to breed winners, he should go to a reputable kennel that has a strain—and by strain I don’t mean a kennel the owner of which just buys dogs here and there and wins with them; but, a kennel where the dam, grancldam, and great-grauddaing of their, winners have been bred, and a kennel that consistently breeds winners. —“Our Dogs” <fA 1 i sosi 5 savs: “A well-known Colonial fancier. T)r Cecil Cook, whose home is in Auckland, New Zealand, it at present making a tour of England and Scotland, and. jou&neving as he i- doing, on a motor cycle, is dropping oil' here, and there by the wayside and having a look over the various kernels he passes e’.i route. He has purchased a nice bitch puppy by eh. Wits" Startler from Mr Silson s Brickfield Kennels. Ho was so enamoured with the puppy that he right away rode up north to see her sire, and at the Celtic Kennels made arrangements to take back home some stock, incident all v for exhibition, but primarily to lav the foundation of a high-class kennel in the Antipodes. Dr Cook, who served with the New Zealand contingent during the war. is a- very keen lover of an “Irishman.” He was determined to have only the best, and, having left, himself in our Ormskirk friend’s hands, there k no doubt he will realise his desire.”