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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



late Mr. George Krehl and the late Mr. 

 Tooth, Unser Fritz, Wenzel Erdmannsheim, 

 and Khaki Erdmannsheim, sired many useful 

 Dachshunds, but their colour was not in 

 vogue, and breeders hesitated to introduce 



MR. CLAUDE WOODHEAD'S 



CH BRANDESBURTON MIMOSA 



BY CH. SLOAN TOSCA. 



dapple blood into their kennels. Of these 

 dapples Unser Fritz, a small dark silver 

 dapple, was the most successful, and mated 

 to the English -bred dapple bitch Tiger 

 Tessie, sired some wonderful youngsters 

 which competed and more than held their 

 own with the other colours in the ring. 



It is impossible to enumerate the hundred 

 and one champions and famous winners that 

 have flitted across the stage of life during 

 twenty-five years, or are still living ; but 

 the large majority of them trace their 

 pedigrees back to Champions Jackdaw and 

 Pterodactj'l, and an examination of the 

 family trees of the most noted Dachshunds 

 of to-day will show how closely they are 

 related one to another. 



A very serious aspect of the inbreeding 

 craze is the mental deterioration involved ; 

 not only in Dachshunds, but in many other 

 breeds of dogs kept and bred for " fancy " 

 points, and not working qualities. In the 

 case of Dachshunds we have lost grit and 

 gameness to an alarming extent, and even 

 ordinary intelligence, and in these respects 

 the English dog is immeasurably the in- 

 ferior of the German dog. It goes without 

 saying that we have lost stamina too, and 

 I was even told a short time ago by a 

 prominent exhibitor that Dachshunds should 



not be taken out to exercise on the roads 

 because it made them go unsound ! Shade of 

 Jackdaw, what do you think of that ! 



A Dachshund that cannot do a day's 

 work on the roads when required is a 

 travesty of what a Dachshund should be. 

 If exercise brings out unsoundness, you 

 must look elsewhere for the fault — to his 

 anatomy. Inbreeding to a specified extent 

 is resorted to, to stamp certain characteristics 

 on a type : but it must be borne in mind that 

 both good and bad points exist, and both 

 may be transmitted, and whilst you may 

 get almost perfection physically, you may 

 at the same time reach insanity, mentally, 

 by inbreeding. 



In 1881 the prominent English breeders 

 formed the Dachshund Club, and set about 

 drawing up a " standard of points " as a 

 guide for the breeding and judging of the 

 Dachshund. At this time no similar club 

 or standard of points existed in Germany, 

 and our English club was therefore obliged 

 to rely on such e\-idence as it could collect 

 from individuals in Germany, no two of 

 whom probably were in exact agreement, 

 and on their own powers of observation 

 coupled with that innate faculty of our 



MRS A L. DEWARS RED BITCH 



CH. LENCHEN 



BY CH SNAKES PRINCE FASHODA. 



race in all matters appertaining to the 

 breeding by selection of pure stock of any 

 animal, which has made us famous the 

 world over, for the drawing up of what was 

 a most important document. 



