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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ten months,and created quite a sensation among New-foundland breeders. The successful careerthen commenced was continued throughouther life. It is an unfortunate fact that Five of the illustrations in thischapter are of typical cham-pions of the breed. Taking thehead of Champion King Stuart(K.C.S.B. 36,708) first, this isportrayed as the type of headrequired. There is a slightdefect in the photograph, dueto refraction, the smooth, shinyblack hair at the stop havingglistened in the light, thuspreventing the depth of thestop and the formation of thedome from being justly seen.This dog had an almost un-paralleled record on the showbench. He was the sire ofMr. Horsfields very typicaldog, Champion Bowdon Per-fection, of Mr. Critchleyscharming bitch, Champion LadyBuller, and the grandsire, on bothsire and dams side, of Cham-pion Shelton Viking (p. 82). Viking was bred by Mrs.Vale Nicolas, of Worksop, whoat one time owned King Stuart,and was firm in her resolve tobreed to that type of head.
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MR. C. GOODMANS MISSBY CH, CANONBURY ROVE Photograph by Russell. 82 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. she never bred. She was an exceptionallylarge bitch. Her breeder was Mr. Haldenby,of Hull, and she was but one of many famousNewfoundlands emanating from his kennels.The sire of Gipsy Princess was the famousChampion Wolf of Badenoch. and her damwas by King Stuart. Coming now to the illustrations of thewhite and black dogs, to take them in theorder of their birth, first is Champion Princeof Norfolk. The illustration (see p. 83) showswhat a grandly proportioned dog he was.and how beautifully marked. He was verylittle used at stud, and he died in 1904. The Other famous Newfoundland kennels areowned by the Rev. W. T. \Yillacott, of Brad-worthy, North Devon ; Mr. J.J. Horsfield,of Sale : Mr. J. J. Cooper (President of theNewfoundland Club), of Feniscowles OldHall, near Blackburn ; Mr. R. R. Coats, ofNewcastle-on-Tyne ; but to mention allthe owners and the many celebrated New-foundlands who have mad

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