THE KENNEL

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 27 October 1922, Page 3

THE KENNEL

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“Greyhound.”

Milhvood Fan, a coloured cocker spaniel owned by Mr O. E. Spedding, of Christchurch, has been mated to her kennel mate, Millwood Surprise. Mr J. A. Chisholm, of Redcliffs, has disposed of a black Pomeranian brood bitch to Mr •) t Ireland, of Seaciiff. Mr F. H. Cunningham, of Ivonini, recently got a. litter of four dogs and two bitch puppies from his Airedale Rabymere Briar Perfection. The pups are by Ch Shirley Mac. Mr A. Dawson’s Smooth Fox Terrier Rosy Chance is in whelp to Messrs G. and F. E. Bilt cliff’s wire dog Ch Glenmore Bristley. Mrs Barlow 'Wills, of Wellington, has had the misfortune to lose her very fine dog Sunkist Golly wog, a blank Pomeranian. Fanciers will remember the name as having figured in the prize list of the recent Wellington show. He contracted distemper soon after tlie show and succumbed. Mr J. B. White, of Dunedin, has some fine puppies from his Irish terrier bitch Ch Red Riot. The pups arc by Roscrea Rebel. Since 1918, when breeding was stopped on account of the food shortage in England, the number of pedigreed dogs registered at the Kennel Club has increased by leaps and bounds, with the result that the high water mark of pre-war days, 1913. when 21.000 dogs were registered, has been well exceeded last year by 2000. This vear the total promises to be higher still. Tlie dog is the most complete. the most remarkable, and the most useful conquest ever made by man. Every species has become our property : eac h individual is altogether devoted to ms master, assumes his maimers, honours and defends his property, and remains attached to him till death; ana a.I this proceeds neither from want nor (-udistraint, but solely from true gratitude, and real friendship. The swiftness, the strength, and the scent ol tbe dog have created for man a powerful ally against other animals, and were perhaps necessary to the establishment of society. The dog is the only animal which has followed man through every region of the earth. Sometimes skin vermin are the cause of ear canker in dogs, because ferimn always make for one or other of the apertures in the animal’s body ; and as the car aperture is the most completely concealed (especially m a flap-eared dog), there is a good explanation why cases of car trouble are most frequently to be met with in dogs like spaniels, retrievers and setters. Inside the ear of a dog may be found two glands, one of which secrets wax. and the other an oily matter for keeping the ear soft and healthy. When irritation is set up by these parasites 'or by spy other cats®© glands become inflamed, and their secretions alter in character, and so ulceration and an unhealthy discharge mav be set up, which are frequently rendered worse by the wrong sort of treatment. The important thing to do is to apply something which will soothe the irritation, and at the same time either kill the insects outright or else

make life not. worth living for them. To this end it will he found sale and serviceable to use an ointment composed of equal parts sweet oii (preferably almond oil) and zinc ointment, to which is added about 2 per cent of ointment of mercurial nitrate. A little should be pushed as far down into the ear as possible bv the aid of a feather, at least once a "day. ANIMALS THAT LEARN. Can horses nr.d dogs nick » foreign language and ri d r-mciebor of the !mnd of the i; birth. - I'he s ject was broachs d by ■ sp < ak; r “ A • Liverpool World Serv:--** . who declared Gnat. Bririsb lm-.-sc cvuld recognise sts own langur;:.abroad. Experts consulted were unai im in admitting that this is tho case. They emphasised, however, riiaf i: • primarily the inflexion of Ihe that the animal lea-ns -mderetari ■' when sent to a foreign -.ecutry. f lion to the- i c < ■ • . j l: d words. The view was expressed -hat dogs like horse-, remembi v i o mcl ■ the language of their ::.iasters, and. ovmafter many years in a foreign hr. ' can recollect the meaning of sentence A clear proof of dogs'' hrenal m-r ess is to be found in the way they ; i. up several native tongues and ddd when they live with their British'nm-. tors in India or Africa, in }>■'.■ ; where several languages arc spoken, man who hod lived in Khartum .told • reporter that his fox terrier ho-' port of the remarks made to it by iif tivc servants who spoke - variom i tongues. i Another man who had lived i I Irkutsk. knew an T-Adid.-sneak-I Dane whose terrier vixen knew Bus j sian, Danish and English. Cats, on the contrary, resm in cadable of picking up more than, at the utmost, their names, in the country in which thev live. Hie- are efficient unto themselves, and do not deign lo try to comprehend the human tongue.