158 WATCH DOGS, HOUSE DOGS, AND TOY DOGS, 



Bpcctive of color. This dog is generally smaller tlian the King 

 Charles. 



THE PUG. 



This curly-tailed and pretty little toy dog was out of fashion in 

 Eno-land for some years, but has recently come again into such 

 vogue that a good pug will fetch from 100 to 200 dollars. The 

 British breed, however, which is one of those known to have exist- 

 ed from the earliest times, was never entirely lost, having been 

 carefully preserved in a few families. The Dutch have always had 

 a fondness for the pug dog, and in Holland the breed is common 

 enough, but the same attention hasjiot been paid to it as in Eng- 

 land, and yellow masks, low foreheads, and pointed noses are con- 

 stantly making their appearance in them, from the impure blood 

 creeping out, and showinge vidences of the crosses which have taken 

 place. The very beautiful pair of these dogs, which is engraved on 

 the next page, have the following history. During the decade 

 1840-50, several admirers of pugs attempted to breed them from 

 good foreign strains. Foremost among these was the then Lady 

 "Willoughby de Eresby, who, after a great deal of trouble, obtained 

 a dog from Vienna which had belonged to a Hungarian countess, 

 but was of a bad color, being a mixture of the stone-fawn now 

 peculiar to the " Willoughby strain," and black ; but the combina- 

 tion of these colors was to a certain extent in the brindled form. 

 From accounts which are to be relied on, this dog was about 

 twelve inches high, and of good shape, both in body and head, but 

 had a face much longer than would now be approved of by pug 

 fanciers. In 1846 he was mated with a fawn bitch imported from 

 Holland, of the desired color, viz., stone-fawn in body, with black 

 mask and trace, but with no indication of brindle. She had a 

 shorter face and heavier jowl than the dog, and was altogether in 

 accordance with the type now recognized as the correct " Wil- 

 loughby pug." From this pair are descended all the strain named 



