CHAPTER XII. 



PICTURE TAKING 



It would seem at the first glance that to 

 write on this subject was only a waste of time 

 and energy, and yet I know that no one fea- 

 ture of the dog business is more vital in 

 importance or more fraught with trouble than 

 this apparently simple process of dog photo- 

 graphy. 



The novice will at once exclaim: "What 

 could be more natural than sending on a pic- 

 ture of a dog I want to sell to the prospective 

 customer? Surely he can see exactly what 

 he is purchasing!" This may be perfectly 

 true, and yet again it may not. 



I am not writing of the subject of false pic- 

 tures on the stud cards of some unscrupulous 

 breeders, or those pictures taken of dogs whose 

 markings are faked, only too common in some 

 quarters. The photos look good, of course, to 

 the buyer, but when the dog arrives, he finds, 

 to his disgust, that the beautiful markings, in 



