132 Modem Dogs. 



Deerhounds, like all other dogs, require early 

 training, and when once broken off sheep and other 

 " small deer," are as safe and reliable in the fields as 

 any other of the canine race. As a fact, I believe that 

 both pointers and setters, greyhounds, and even the 

 collie himself, is as, "fond of mutton " as the often 

 maligned dog about which this article is being written. 

 Many dogs have been spoiled by their manners 

 being neglected during their puppyhood ; no doubt 

 others will be so in the future, and it is a pity that 

 one so docile, handsome, sagacious, and aristocratic 

 as the deerhound, should obtain an evil name through 

 the negligence or over-indulgence of its owner. 



As already stated, dog shows have been of infinite 

 advantage in raising the deerhound to its present 

 popularity, though prior to this epoch, what Sir 

 Walter Scott writes of his Maida and other favourite 

 hounds, with Landseer's fine paintings, had made 

 the general public anxious to see such handsome 

 dogs in the flesh. The first show at Birmingham, 

 in 1860, provided two classes for them, but there 

 were few entries, and both leading prizes were taken 

 by Lieut. -Colonel Inge, of Thorpe, near Tamworth, 

 who, at that time, possessed a capital strain of them. 

 Later on the numbers increased, and in 1862 there 

 were ten competitors in the dog class, but they were 

 a mixed lot, though the winner, called Alder, bred by 



