Buying a Dog 



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Kennel Club would not give a registration because this owner had been 

 suspended and had not the right to register; and the dam being dead, she could 

 not be sold to any one having the right to register. Fortunately these were 

 cheap dogs and the duty correspondingly light, but on the same steamer 

 with them came two or three pick-up dogs of no breeding, and they passed 

 in on payment of one or two dollars. If worthless curs were not admitted, 

 then there would be some semblance of reason in present rules, but for 

 them the door is held wide open, and the stringency is put on the man who 

 pays hundreds of dollars for a dog worth having. 



To buy good dogs as per government regulations it is only necessary to 

 write for pedigrees and buy the dog having the one that reads best, but if 

 that is done the buyer might as well make up his mind that if he ever does 

 show his pedigree dog he will find that he is beaten out of sight by men who 

 bought good dogs and then thought of the pedigree. 



But, the reader asks, if pedigree amounts to nothing, how are we to 

 buy for breeding purposes, for instance ? We have already said that pedi- 

 gree is valuable, and it is an essential in the case of purchasing for breeding, 

 but we again repeat that if the buyer does not know something regarding 

 the dogs in the pedigree, either personally or from reliable information, one 

 string of names is as good as another to him. Here is a case in point as 

 shown in the following Irish terrier pedigree: 



Red Idol 



KrifFel 



Ch. Breda Mixer 



Red Inez 



Breda Dan 



Balmoral Fan 



Red Idol 



Shankill Violet 



Red Ire 



Breda Iris 



Ch. Breda Mixer 



Knoxonia 



The Irish Ambassador 



Breda Vixen 



Ch. Bachelor 



Breda Florence 



