THE KENNEL.

Otago Witness, Issue 3672, 29 July 1924, Page 28

THE KENNEL.

By

Terror.

Fanniers and breeders of doga are cordially h*. Filed to contribute to this column. “Terror” win tndeavour to make this department as interesting 6nd up-to-date as possible, but in order to do this ie must have the co-operation of his readers, feeace he 'trusts this invitation will ha cheerlulls teaponded to. * —J. L., Gore.—lf you can tell me from whom you purchased the pup, I would be pleased to look up the * advertisement and give the information you require. I have never met with a case of refusal of pedigree to a purchaser. Once armed with the name of the sire and dam, you should ue able to get the pedigree from the Kennel Club by paying a small fee. Rabies in Imported Dogs.—Two succeeding paragraphs appearing in Our Dogs (one. the latter, being a quotation from the London Morning Post) seem to be somewhat contradictory in sentiment. “Our Dogs says: “The good news is to hand that in April the period of quarantine for dogs imported into Australia was reduced from 180 days to two months. This means that some dogs were released at once, that others will quickly, follow, and that Importations from this country (England) will be accelerated.” 'The paragraph taken from the Morning Post is as rollows:—“The Ministry of Agriculture states that two cases of rabies have recently been confirmed in imported dogs whilst undergoing the prescribed quarantine on veterinary premises, in accordance with the Ministry’s regulations. In one case the dogs came from Egypt, and the first symptoms appeared three days after arrival at the quarantine station. From inquiries made it was ascertained that the dog had been used for hunting wild dogs, and had been severely bitten about two months before the disease appeared. In the other case the dog came from India, and the first symptoms did not appear until the dog had been three months in quarantine. Allowing for the period of the voyage, this dog must have been bitten, therefore, at least four months before rallies appeared. These two eases justify, it is pointed out, the regulations which require all dogs brought from abroad to undergo quarantine at an approved veterinary establishment for a period of six months from the date of landing.”

to breed winners, go to a breeder—one who has a reputable kennel. I don’t mean a kennel the owner of which has bought a dog and won with it, but a kennel where the dam, granddam, and great-grand-

dams of their winners have been bred, and a kennel that consistently breeds winners. •It is not to be inferred from the foregoing that there is no credit due to the buyer of a dog who with his purchase may score prizes at shows. If there were no buyers there would be very little breeding. There have been innumerable cases in which the buyer lias shown better judgment than the breeder as regards the quality of individual specimens in a litter. 1 remember a case in which a visiting fancier was shown a litter of collie pups, and heard all, with one exception, ponded at as likely champions. The one exception, though described as a weed, was the only one which took the visitor’s fancy. He saved it from the tub b' T purchasing it, and subsequently won with it against all comers, both here and in the North Island. I reckon that this mu-chasing fancier deserved a lot of credit. Toasting “The Visitors” at a Club Show Dinner. —At a function held in connection -with the Cardiff dog show Major C. Budd, who was entrusted with the toast to “The Visitors,” in the course of a most interesting speech relative to the spirit of fellow-ship engendered amongst kennelmen by their gathering together at shows, spoke of the pleasures to be derived from the ownership of dogs, of the elation felt by successes in showing and breeding, and of the sometime, depressions due to sickness, deaths, and other worries incidental to breeding and rearing. He concluded his address as follows: —“And I think that nutof all those emotions, happy and sorrowful, there is born in us a deeper, wider love of the dog than any outsider could possibly appreciate—a love that does not need to restrict itself to our own dogs, nor even to our own breed, but which, reaching out beyond them, embraces the whole canine race, and is as yet so great that even then there is something left over for all our fellow dog-lovers, for all those thousands of men and women who share with us this great, absorbing passion, no matter how differently they may be situated in other respects. Ladies and gentlemen, isn t the dog a perfectly wonderful person when, in addition to all the other delights he brings he makes us free of this universal brotherhood, this great Freemasonry ot dogdom—(applause), —which assures us that, no matter where we may be, so long only as we are among ‘ doggy ’ people, we are not among strangers?” ... , last reached Australia, but that kennelmen arc not impressed with their appearance. They are Intelligent, and probably as clever as they say, but tho trace of the wolf blood is very apparent, and it is feared in Australia that they would be a terrible menace if once allowed to get amongst the dingoes, which are such a terrible curse in the cattle country. It has been found that the deerhounds bought for the purpose of keeping down the dingo pest have inbred with them, and the cross has become a greater pest. The potential danger in the introduction of the Alsatian wolf blood may be imagined.