530 THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DOG. 



to improve the Dogge and raise him to such perfection that 

 the fanciers in other parts of Germany soon vied with 

 them ; and now the Germans call the German Dogge, with 

 just pride, their national dog, while the Great Dane, 

 according to the Gartenlaube of April, 1885, has gone to 

 the dogs in Denmark. 



On the title-page of the book "Die Deutsche Dogge," 

 published in July, 1888, we read as follows: 



We have used in the English translation the term the ' ' German Dogge " 

 in preference to that of "Great Dane," the name the breed has in England, 

 because we consider that the fatherland of the Dogge, the country in which 

 they have been brought to their present state of perfection, has the right to 

 choose the name which it considers correct. The ''Great Danish Dog" 

 (Danske Hunde) is an entirely different breed, which is found in Denmark, 

 and the points of which were fixed at the exhibition in Copenhagen, 1886. 



The niustrirte Zeitung of February 5, 1887, contains a 

 picture, "Three Kindred Races of Dogs, the English Mas- 

 tiff, the Danish Dog, and the German Dogge," and the 

 following remarks: 



The Danish Dog, little known in Germany, is unquestionably closely 

 related to the English Mastiff, but has better legs and feet than the thorough- 

 bred Mastiff, and is faster, livelier, and not so clumsy. The best specimens 

 are said to have been raised thirty or forty years ago on an estate called 

 Broholm, and are, therefore, also called Broholmer Dogs. The Danish or 

 Broholm Dog does not at all resemble our German Dogge, as may be readily 

 seen from our illustration, and it is proof of ignorance if many a fancier still 

 classifies our German Dogge as Danish or Ulmer Dogge. The distinction 

 appears to have been invented by dealers, for now we find the light, then the 

 heavy strain mentioned as Danish or Ulmer Dogge. 



During the great international exhibition of dogs of all races at Ham- 

 burg, in the year 1876, it was evident that none of the breeders and connois- 

 seurs present were able to classify and distinguish the numerous entries as 

 Ulmer or Danish Dogges. During the following shows at Hanover (1879) and 

 Berlin, it was resolved to abolish this unwarranted distinction entirely, and to 

 designate the breed as German Dogges, which they have been in reality for the 

 last three centuries. At the same time, a standard of points was agreed upon 

 after the best specimens. According to them, the German Dogge must neither 

 be too heavy nor too light, but must keep exactly the medium between the 

 Greyhound and Molossus Dog. Later attempts to have a heavier kind 

 acknowledged, besides the one recognized by the standard, have always been 

 rejected with overwhelming majority by the friends and breeders of this finest 

 and largest of all canine races. 



