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to carry 'lie weight of the body. Further, the feet, if they are not regularly formed ; if the 

 hind legs are too long, and likewise the tail when too long and heavy and conspicuously 

 crooked. With regard to colour, it is to be said that white as ground colour is also to be 

 considered faulty, with the exception of what is mentioned before. 



The task of attempting to decide where doctors have disagreed now falls upon our 

 shoulders ; for, as will have been seen above, the opinions we have quoted fail very much to 

 coincide with one another. It has been our desire, however, in each and every instance, where 

 we think a reasonable ground for difference of opinion exists, to give each side a full chance 

 of publicity, and therefore we have devoted considerable space to the breed now under dis- 

 cussion. For our own part we are certainly in favour of the type supported by Messrs. Lovcll 

 and Millais, not out of any feelings of insular prejudice, but because we consider that type 

 the hound type has been proved to be in existence for centuries. In the two earlier cuts 

 of Dachshunds which accompany this article, and which are taken from La Vcncric, by Jacques 

 du Fouilloux, we notice most unmistakably that the dogs depicted are of the high conical 

 skull which Mr. Lovell and Mr. Millais so stoutly maintain is the correct formation. Later on 

 we come to a small cut from that hones Aniinalintn which has already been drawn upon to 

 assist us in the present work. Here a very similar type of dog to those shown in La Vcncrie 

 is produced, and the favourable impression towards the hound type is thereby much increased 

 in our opinion. In estimating such matters, also, we cannot help thinking it advisable to 

 turn one's thoughts in the direction of the uses to which a breed is put. In so doing, our 

 views concerning the hound type have been greatly strengthened from the reflection that, as 

 we have already said, tracking game is the Dachshund's forte, not baiting savage vermin in 

 the latter's native earth. One remark, too, of Mr. Millais's has struck us very forcibly. " It is 

 very easy to breed a Terrier from a hound, but it is impossible to breed a hound from a 

 Terrier." Without going the entire length of Mr. Millais as to the impossibility of the 

 latter achievement in breeding, we readily accept its difficulty, and recognise the force of the 

 argument he makes use of. 



We are not, however, wholly at one with Mr. Millais in his sweeping condemnation of 

 the Terrier type. We prefer the hound type of Dachshund as being in our opinion the older 

 and the more characteristic of the two ; but in the face of what we have seen and heard, 

 it is impossible to ignore the existence of the Terrier type, and the store set upon it in 

 certain parts of its native country Hanover to-wit. How this class of dog originated, except by 

 crossing the hound type of Dachshund with a Terrier, we cannot tell ; but as it now exists 

 it is impossible to decline to recognise it as a variety, though perhaps an undesirable one, 

 of the breed. A satisfactory illustration of this class of dog will be seen in the engraving, and our 

 readers who are ignorant of the different types will thereby be able to form their own opinions 

 on the beauty of the Terrier type of dog. 



Another point on which Mr. Everett Millais and Mr. Enoch Hutton break a lance is 

 that of the colour of the red Dachshund's nose. Here, as in Germany, considerable difference 

 of opinion exists ; but we personally feel no hesitation in offering our allegiance to the party 

 which advocates red nones, as black noses in such cases look quite out of keeping with the colour. 



There remains one description of Dachshund which has been quite overlooked by Messrs. 

 Lovell, Millais, and Hutton, and which is rarely seen in this country, and that is the rough- 

 coated variety, which will be found to be represented in the engraving on the preceding page. 

 This breed, no doubt, is but a cross from the original variety, and is not valued in its native 

 country by admirers of the breed. 



