ON EXHIBITING 69 



Attention to these simple details will save an enormous 

 amount of unnecessary work to some hard-worked official, 

 whose hands are quite full enough already. 



The entries duly made, there remain several days for 

 final preparations. 



In preparing a bob-tail for exhibition the question of 

 the bath is most important. The appearance of a light- 

 coloured dog is enormously enhanced by washing, but 

 the process, unfortunately, has a tendency to soften the 

 texture of his coat, which should always be as harsh as 

 possible. 



The beginner, therefore, has to choose between two 

 evils. If he bathes his dog too long before a show the 

 animal will possibly get dirty again in the interval. If 

 he bathes him too late, the texture of the coat will be 

 considerably softer than its wont. 



Selecting the lesser of these evils, the exhibitor will 

 be wise if he wash his dogs some two or three days before 

 the show, which will give the coat time enough to resume 

 its usual harshness. Any dirt which may accumulate on 

 light-coloured legs, feet, heads, or chests can be subse- 

 quently removed by the use of a little whitening, which 

 may be well rubbed in and thoroughly brushed out again 

 before the animal goes into the show ring. 



It frequently happens that a bob-tail, running loose 

 on sandy soil after a bath, gets his legs so much dis- 

 coloured that a suspicious judge may mistake the tint 

 for an objectionable shade of tan. This discolouration 



