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 Great Dane. When after the war of1870 national feeling was pulsating verystrongly in the veins of re-united Germany,the German cynologists were on the look-out for a national dog, and for that purposethe Great Dane was re-christened DeutscheDogge, and elected as the champion ofGerman Dogdom. For a long time allthese breeds had, no doubt, been indis-criminately crossed, and a proof of this maybe • found in the fact that the powerfulinfluence in dog breeding of black andtan, which is the colour of the Rottweiler THE GREAT DANE. 85 Hund, shows itself even now by the occa-sional appearance of a puppy with tanmarking, and particularly the peculiar tanspots above the eyes. The Great Dane was introduced into thiscountry spasmodically some thirty-five shortened by the removal of some of theend joints should be disqualified fromwinning a prize. At the end of 1895 theold Club was dissolved, and in 1896 Mr.Robert Leadbetter, M.F.H., took the initia-tive in the formation of a new Great Dane
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MRS. REGINALD HERBERTS CH. VENDETTA BY HARRAS FLORA. BRED BY MR. BAMBERGER IN 1884. years ago, when he was commonly referredto as the Boarhound, or the German Mastiff,and for a time the breed had to undergoa probationary period in the ForeignClass at dog shows, but it soon gained inpublic favour, and in the early eighties aGreat Dane Club was formed. In 1895the breed suffered a great set-back throughthe abolition of cropping in this country,which was also one of the causes of dissen-sion amongst the members of the GreatDane Club ; another cause being the questionas to whether a dog whose tail had been Club, which has flourished ever since. In1903 another Club was started under thetitle, The Northern Great Dane Club,which has also done important work. Theintrinsic good qualities of the Great Daneand the assistance of these institutions haveraised him to such a height in general esteemthat he is now one of the most popular ofall the larger breeds of dogs. The Kennel Club has classed the

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