Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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notable are Barney, Mickey Free, The
O'Donoghue, Kate Kearney, and Free
O'Donoghue. Mr. Skidmore, who is, I

THE SPORTING SPANIEL. 271

believe, still alive, continued breeding and
exhibiting till nearly the end of the eighties,
his best dog after Doctor being probably
Mickey Free (k.c.s.b. 10,393). Another old-
time breeder and exhibitor,
Mr. N. Morton, only died as recently as
1906, though he had long ago given up
showing dogs, and devoted himself almost
entirely to horses, with which he was very
successful at the great Balls Bridge Show
in Dublin and elsewhere. He had, how-

characteristic energy, and for several years
carried all before him, showing such good
specimens as Harp (k.c.s.b. 22,518), Spal-

peen, Belshrah, Shann, Erin, Shamus, and
Eileen II., nearly all of whom attained
championship honours. It was a great
loss to the breed and to everyone con-
nected with it when the Colonel gave up
showing about the middle of the next decade,
and someone of his energy and personality
is badly wanted at the present day to re-
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MR. C E. WRIGHT'S IRISH WATER SPANIELS.
PATRICK O'CONNOR. HEMPIE, RODERIC O'CONNOR, and KATHLEEN O'CONNOR.
Photogtaph by T. Fall.

ever, at the beginning rendered the great-
est service to the breed, and his kennels
produced some very notable specimens,
including Larry Doolin (k.c.s.b. 4,384),
the ancestor of many dogs destined to win
fame for themselves in later days.
Between 1880 and 1890 many good Irish
Water Spaniels were exhibited, and the
breed increased greatly in popularity. In
this period the names of the brothers R. B.
and T. S. Carey, and of Colonel the Hon.
W. le Poer Trench first appear as breeders
and exhibitors, names which are still house-
hold words to all Irish Water Spaniel men.
Colonel Trench took up the breed with

vive the waning interest in this quaint-
looking and useful dog.
Other successful owners of this period
were Captain J. H. Dwyer with Blair,
Mr. T. K. Penson with The Shaughraun,
Mr. J. S. Nisbet with Kate Kearney and
Free O'Donoghue (the latter a very hand-
some and typical dog, Mr. G. W. Thomp

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