440 British Dogs. 



CHAPTER X. THE BLACK AND TAN TOY 

 TERRIER. 



BY CORSINCON. 



SOME score years ago a large proportion of the black and tan toy terriers 

 were of the sort called by " fanciers " apple-headed ones that is, round 

 skulled with prominent foreheads and this variety owed the features 

 referred to to a cross with the King Charles spaniel. 



Another variety, finer in the head and generally showing the wheel 

 back and tucked-up flank of the Italian greyhound, owed its peculiar 

 features to a cross with the last named dog. 



Both of these have now, however, given place entirely, or to a great 

 extent, to a much neater animal, showing truer terrier character, being, in 

 fact, the Manchester, or black and tan terrier, dwarfed by constant selec- 

 tion of the smallest, and continued in-and-in breeding. 



This continued consanguineous breeding is not, however, an unmixed 

 good, and in some instances appears to have already been carried to the 

 utmost brink it can be with safety, great delicacy of constitution being 

 one result, and another is the loss of hair ; many specimens being almost 

 bare on head, face, and neck. 



This is a great disfigurement which can be permanently remedied by 

 judicious breeding. I have, however, in another breed lately found 

 astonishing results in the quick growth of hair by rubbing in twice a day 

 a mixture in equal parts of petroline such as is burned in lamps with 

 wick the oil, not the spirit, Field's ozokerine, and the lotion, Spratt's 

 patent make for growing hair on dogs. As the use of this mixture was 

 eminently successful, I think it is worth mentioning that others may try it. 



The points are the same as in the larger breed, and to that standard 

 readers are referred. There is more difficulty experienced in producing a 

 good one, well marked and rich in colour of the desired size, which is 

 from 31b. to 51b. at most than there is in breeding dogs 201b. and over. 



As they are thin in the skin and but lightly covered with hair, these 

 fragile creatures should be kept clothed when out of doors. 



