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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THE HON BY SIXTY SCOTTIE. Photograph by C. Reid, Wisha HOLLAND HIBBERTS MUNDEN SENTRY THE RETRIEVERS. 263 and there were good specimens of almostevery description, game and Newfoundland,curly coated and wavy coated ! In thechampion class the late Mr. S. E. Shirleyswell-known Paris (k.c.s.b., 1839) got aspecial prize. Paris was by Lion (aliasHercules) out of Bess—both importedLabradors. Even in Cassells Illustrated Book ofthe Dog (1881), Mr. Vero Shaw, in dealing had rare facilities for importing Labradors,and through him many others were supplied.I am not aware of any dog of consequenceto the breed having been imported in recentyears. Without the assistance of showsor imported blood, however, they have sur-vived marvellously, thanks especially tothe kennels of such breeders as the Dukes ofBuccleuch and Hamilton, the Earl of Veru-lam, Lords Wimborne, Home, and Malmes-
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mmmm^mmm^mmmsmm GROUP OF LABRADORS. THE PROPERTY OF THE HON. Photograph by C. Keid, Wishaw. A. HOLLAND HIBBERT with Retrievers on p. 419, speaks of Lab-rador and Newfoundland in convertibleterms ! As Poole—the south—so Shields on the coaly Tyne supplied the north, andLabradors were certainly well known assporting dogs in Northumberland in the fifties—probably earlier. Mr. Joseph Job-ling, of Morpeth, a well-known authority inhis day, who not only owned the winningSetter at the first dog show in 1859, butwho was one of the judges for Pointers, wasmuch interested in shipping at Shields. He bury, the Hon. A. Holland Hibbert, SirSavile Crossley, Mr. F. P. Barnett, Mr. C.Liddell, Mr. 0. L. Mansel, and othersequally enthusiastic. To the Duke of Buccleuchs kennel, underthe able management of Mr. John Bell,we are probably more indebted in thelast twenty years than to any other. Itsfoundation was laid in two bitches by adog of the Duke of Hamiltons from a bitchof Lord Malmesburys. At Dru

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