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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inflammation,otherwise mortificationmay set in and someof the joints of the tailwill have to be takenoff. Cases have probablyoccurred where the endof the tail was takenoff to get rid of the ugly corkscrew twist,and this may have been the reason forthe proposal to disqualify all curtaileddogs. Until recently British Great Dane breedersand exhibitors have paid very little atten-tion to colour, on the principle that, like agood horse, a good Great Dane cannot be a bad colour. The English clubs, however,have now in this particular also adopted theGerman standard. The orthodox colours are brindle, fawn,blue, black, and harlequin. In the brindledogs the ground colour should be any shadefrom light yellow to dark red-yellow onwhich the brindle appears in darkerstripes. The harlequins have on a purewhite ground fairly large black patches,which must be of irregular shape, brokenup as if they had been torn, and not haverounded outlines. When brindle GreatDanes are continuously bred together, it
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LIBETT VAN DE PRINS by ch. hatto of Holland—ady. LATE OWNER, MISS E. MACKAY SCOTT. has been found that they get darker, andthat the peculiar striping disappears,and in that case the introduction of a goodfawn into the strain is advisable. Theconstant mating of harlequins has the ten-dency to make the black patches dis-appear, and the union with a good blackGreat Dane will prevent the loss of colour. 88 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG The following is the official descriptionissued by the Great Dane Club. Thesketches are by Mis. Ernest E. Fox. THE PERFECT GREAT DANE. I. General Appearance.—The Great Dane is notso heavy or massive as the Mastiff, nor shouldhe too nearly approach the Greyhound type.Remarkable in size and very muscular, stronglythough elegantly built ; the head and neckshould be carried high, and the tail in line withthe back, or slightly upwards, but not curled

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