SOLD £2000 DOG

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 11

SOLD £2OOO DOG

BRITISH WOMAN OWNER CHOW-CHOW EXPERT LONDON, March 7. Mrs. Violet Mannoocn, of Chalfont, oi. Peter, Bucks, lias the Midas touch with dogs. Fourteen years ago she bought a pair of chow-chows. She picked the chow because she liked it —head like a lion's, straight trout legs thick as a man's wrist, and a detached regard for humans equalled only py Kipling's cat.

in the first litter was a ball of oouneing, lurry playfulness thai grew up with the name Choonan Brillianniic. At the first three shows lie went to he won the right to the title "champion" before his name.

An American, with the usual eye for a good thing, bought him and (also as usual) paid well for it — £2OOO.

To-day Mrs. Mannooch has the finest chow kennels in the world and another champion, which, they say, outclasses his great-grandfather Bril..antine in every way. She calls him Podge.

Mrs. Mannooch lives for her dogs. They occupy all her time and the three acres of ground surrounding her cottage.

On the mantelpiece and two tables of her home are nothing but. cups.

rose-bowls and medals, souvenirs of a hundred shows.

Life begins at 6.3 U a.m. at Hill Cottage kennels. Mrs. Mannooch goes

.ne rounds with her four kennelmaids, who are kept busy until five in cue evening. There is a champion, or coming champion, in every fourth kennel.

Podge (Champion Choonam Hung | Kwong is his show name), has to share a box with another, although he was named a best dog at Cruiit's' when there was a record entry of 10,000. :

No special treatment for this 80pounder. One full meal a day, like nis thirty-odd relatives and friends .it Hill Cottage. America, where Podge's £2OOO ancestor has just died aged 15, is tempting Mrs. Mannooch sorely about Podge, but she will not part with him.