MR. EVERETT MILL A is ON DACHSHUNDS. 327 



" They are excellent guards, and, being on such short legs, seem, from their nearness to 

 the ground, to have a quicker sense of hearing, and I have frequently known them give the 

 alarm some time before longer-legged dogs took any notice whatever of the sound. 



" With dogs of their own variety they are generally very peaceable, and may easily be 

 kept in bulk in kennels, but when they once quarrel they must be separated for ever as kennel 

 companions, else one or other will be destroyed. 



" With those of other breeds they are peculiar, never quarrelsome, and hardly ever are 

 the first to begin a fight ; but if attacked by a bigger dog they will not by any means hang 

 back, and generally come off best, as they fight low, and work among their adversary's 

 legs and throat ; while a small dog, even if as big as themselves, they will often treat with 

 supreme contempt. 



" Festus was the foundation of my kennel of this breed, and is by Feldmann, out of an 

 imported bitch of equal character. He was shown for two seasons only, is about seven years 

 old, and scales 20 Ibs. when in good condition ; in colour a beautiful fallow-red. During this 

 time he was the winner of forty-seven prizes and two cups, including two firsts and one cup 

 at Birmingham, in 1875 and 1876." 



Mr. Everett Millais, of Palace Gate, London, who has studied the breed most carefully, is 

 entirely of Mr. Lovell's opinion on the question of head ; and in answer to a question put to 

 him by us with reference to his views on the subject, replies as follows : 



"What is a Dachshund? A hound used on the Continent, more especially Germany, for 

 the purpose of driving badgers and foxes from their underground lairs ; also for the purpose 

 of tracking and beating underwood above ground. Often and often am I asked whether I 

 have seen so and so's hound, or if I will come and see one that another friend has imported. 

 When I come home from the visit I think what money might have been saved if the purchaser had 

 only gone to a Kennel Club show, paid his half-crown, and seen what constitutes a Dachshund. 



" Of all people in this world John Bull abroad is the easiest to swindle. If he goes to 

 Waterloo, bullets, &c., are imposed on him that never knew the battle-field. If to Germany, he 

 is let in with some mongrel with crooked legs. Being an old breeder and I may say a 

 successful one, although I only showed one Dachshund in my life I hope it will not be taken 

 amiss if I say that 90 per cent, of the Dachshunds now seen in this city (of London) are no 

 more the pure Dachshund they are represented to be than those mongrels in Paris that have 

 the audacity to sign themselves Bull-terrier. 



" There are certain breeders who, not having the courage to stick up for one legitimate 

 type, excuse themselves by saying that there are two distinct types of Dachshunds the Hound 

 type and the Terrier type. This is a great and fatal mistake. That there are dogs, and 

 alas, too many of them, with fine bone, Terrier sterns, Terrier heads, and light crooked legs, I 

 will not deny ; but, at the same time, I say that they are mongrels. They have got a root 

 in this country, and it will always be my endeavour to eradicate it on every opportunity. The 

 Dachshund proper is a hound, and a little beauty too. It is very easy to breed a Terrier 

 from a hound, but it is impossible to breed a hound from a Terrier. 



" The male Dachshund should weigh, when in proper condition, from 20 to 22 Ibs. certainly 

 not more and the female proportionately lighter. The head of the Dachshund should be 

 conical, though not to such a marked degree as the Bloodhound. The ears are set on low, 

 and hang like a hound's ; they ought to reach some way over his nose. The Dachshund 



