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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own for a cer-tainty that almost all the most celebrated St.Bernards in England at the present time areclosely allied to the Mastiff. The result of all this intermixture ofdifferent breeds has been the production of anexceedingly fine race of dogs, which formone of the most attractive features at ourdog shows, and are individually excellentguards and companions. As a companion,the St. Bernard cannot be surpassed, whena large dog is required for the purpose.Most docile in temperament and disposition,he is admirably suited as the associate of alady or a child. Well does the writer re-member a once well-known champion, who,when quite a puppy, used to carry his little 64 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. girls basket to a coppice hard by and bringit home again when it was filled with violets.The St. Bernard is sensitive to a degree,and seldom forgets an insult, which heresents with dignity. Specimens of the breedhave occasionally been seen that are savage,but when this is the case ill-treatment of
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ALPINE MASTIFFS. From the Painting by Sir Edwin Landsur, R.A. some sort has assuredly been the provokingcause. The dogs at the Hospice of St. Bernardare small in comparison with those thatare seen in England belonging to the samerace. The Holy Fathers were more par-ticular about their markings than great size.The body colour should be brindle or orangetawny, with white markings; the muzzlewhite, with a line running up between theeyes, and over the skull, joining at theback the white collar that encircles the neckdown to the front of the shoulders. Thecolour round the eyes and on the ears shouldbe of a darker shade in the red ; in thecentre of the white line at the occiput thereshould be a spot of colour. These markingsare s.iid to represent the stole, chasuble andscapular which form part of the vestmentsworn by the Monks ; but it is seldom that the markings are so clearly defined ;they are more often white, with brindle ororange patches on the body, with evenly-marked heads. In Englan

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