■KENNEly TERRIERS 



variably holds the upper position. Again, ask 

 such a terrier to follow the huntsman of a fell 

 pack over twenty or thirty miles of rough going 

 on the mountains, and the dog will be beat before 

 the end of the day, particularly if there is much 

 snow on the ground. Such a terrier may be 

 quite useful where he is carried on horseback, 

 and so reaches his destination in a fresh con- 

 dition, but for all round work a terrier is better 

 for a bit of leg as long as he is fairly narrow. 

 The Sealyham terriers nowadays so much ad- 

 vertised, are too short-legged and broad-chested 

 to properly negotiate rock crevices or surmount 

 ledges underground. They are game enough 

 where they can get, such as in badger earths, but 

 for general purposes they are wrongly built. We 

 do not wish for a moment to disparage the courage 

 of Sealyhams or small terriers in general, for 

 many of them are undeniable workers, but in 

 many situations their build prevents them doing 

 their best work. A biggish made terrier is at 

 times very useful, for he can force a fox to bolt 

 or take punishment without getting too much 

 mauled in return, but it is seldom that such a 

 dog can reach a fox in the average earth, owing 

 to his size. What is wanted is an all round type, 

 capable of doing good work under a variety of 

 conditions. If we were asked to give a speci- 

 fication of such a terrier it would be as follows : 

 Weight, 151b. to i61b. ; coat, thick and wet- 

 resisting ; chest, narrow, but not so much so as 

 to impede the free action of heart and lungs, legs 

 sufficiently long to enable the dog to travel above 

 ground with ease to himself ; teeth level, and jaw 

 powerful but not too long ; ears, small and 

 dropped close to the head, so that they are less 

 likely to be torn by foxes. Breed, preferably 



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