54 THE BOSTON TERRIER 



understood by man, in which the best points of 

 both dogs are reproduced in their offspring. 

 Whenever one finds a dog eminently suited to 

 his bitch, do not make a change, always breed 

 to the same dog. I am perfectly cognizant of 

 the fact that a great temptation presents itself 

 to want to breed to a better dog, a noted prize 

 winner probably, expecting, of course, that in- 

 asmuch as the dam did so well with a somewhat 

 inferior dog, she must of necessity do corre- 

 spondingly better with an A I dog. The rea- 

 soning is perfectly correct, but the result does 

 not correspond. Very inferior pups to her 

 previous litter by the inferior dog surprise and 

 disgust the owner. In our kennels we have had 

 numerous examples of this. One bitch espe- 

 cially, years ago, when bred to "Buster," always 

 gave first class puppies of uniform type each 

 litter, but the same bitch bred to some noted 

 prize winner always gave ordinary pups. An- 

 other bitch that at the present time is practically 

 retiring from the puppy raising business from 

 age, when bred to Hickey's Teddy IV., always 

 had in her litter four crackerjacks out of the 

 seven or eight she always presented us with ; 

 when bred to any other dog (and we have tried 

 her with several), no matter how good, never 

 had a first class pup in the litter. Hence I repeat, 

 if a dog 1 "nicks" with your bitch, resulting in good 



