THE KENNEL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 427, 29 September 1898, Page 19

THE KENNEL.

That was a dastardly outrage upon a Christchurch fancier’s fox-terrier the other day. Mr A. Evans has a very nice pup, and some rascal got hold of it and, with a barber’s clippers, shaved a lot of hair off one side of the dog. Of course the animal is disfigured for a long time, and the object of the blackguard accomplished.

The entries for the Wellington Kennel Club’s Show are most satisfactory, and constitute a record for the Empire City. Several Auckland dogs are going down, and some of them are expected to do a bit of winning. A strange tale reaches us (Stockeeper) from Knightley, near Ecllesall, Staffordshire. where a retriever bitch, after being deprived of her pups, first attempted to foster some ducklings and afterwards some goslings, but these being taken away she found a newly-born calf, which had lost its mother soon after birth, and this she at once adopted and has suckled ever since. The strangely-assorted couple are exciting considerable interest in the locality. Dogs, unlike monkeys, are seldom victims of alcohol. Even when surrounded by beer and spirits they preserve their teetotalism, although there are sometimes those canines who stray from the strict paths of sobriety. Such a case (says the London Echo} has just been brought to our notice from Plymouth. Mr C. Hodges, of the Falstaffe, is the possessor of a terrier who has developed a penchant for bitter ale and cider After indulging in this, he seeks other dogs in the vicinity of his home, and a battle royal ensues. Then he returns and sleeps off the effects of his indulgence. Under ordinary circumstances the animal is peacefully inclined, simply fighting when intoxicated.

The New Zealand Collie Club (writes *“ Sirius ”) has intimated to the Wellington Kennel Club that, owing to the Collie judge of the latter club’s show, Mr R. Wark, not being on tfle Collie Club’s list of judges, its members will not exhibit at the Kenel Club’s Show. I have already expressed my opinion upon the removal of Mr Wark’s name from the Collie Club’s list, and will only add that the further action wtll only increase the contempt which the Collie Club is earning. Attempts seem to be being made to import the “ Collie v. Kennel ” strife into Christchurch. Nobody is in a better position than myself to know the history of the matter, and I most emphatically assert that Mr Wark used every effort to obtain to obtain the hold-, ing of the Collie Club’s show in Christchurch in connection with the show of the new organisation here — whatever form this might take. That it was not so held was not his fault. It will do no good to go into the facts of the matter, and I trust I shall not be compelled to do go, by erroneous statements being circulated. D.H.