272 Modern Dogs. 



cannot gallop. As to the feet, the Pointer Club has 

 adopted " Stonehenge's " description, with which I 

 quite agree. This is as follows : " Breeders have 

 long disputed the comparatively good qualities of 

 the round cat-like foot, and the long one, resembling 

 that of the hare. In the pointer my own opinion is 

 in favour of the cat-foot, with the toes well arched 

 and close together. This is the desideratum of the 

 M.F.H., and I think stands work better than the 

 hare-foot, in which the toes are not arched but still 

 lie close together. In the setter the greater amount 

 of hair to a certain extent condones the inherent 

 weakness of the hare-foot ; but in the pointer no 

 such superiority can be claimed. The main point, 

 however, is the closeness of the pads combined with 

 thickness of the horny covering." So far as hare 

 feet are concerned, an ordinary foot of this descrip- 

 tion would be severely handicapped by modern 

 judges who persist in a hard close thick foot, which 

 in reality is squarer and more angular than a round 

 foot, but equally thick even thicker. 



Shape and symmetry are something in every 

 animal, especially in short coated dogs. In colour, 

 whether the pointer be liver or white or lemon or 

 white, it makes little difference. Once the lemon 

 and orange and whites were fashionable, now the 

 liver and whites appear to be the more popular ; 



