Dog Shows and Doggy People 



From photo by C. Wrigley, Mossley 

 MR. L. P. C. ASTLEY 



years has devoted himself to 

 doggy affairs. He has repre- 

 sented, at one time or another, 

 the Field) Stock-keeper, and 

 Fancier's Gazette, and is now 

 on the staff of the Illustrated 

 Kennel News. He has often 

 judged at Continental, and 

 three times at American, dog 

 shows. Besides exhibiting Fox- 

 terriers, Scottish Terriers, 

 Rough Collies, and Schipperkes, 

 he has kept Pile Game Bantams, 

 Gold-pencilled Hamburghs, and 

 other varieties, and in pigeons, 

 Show and Flying Homers and 

 Silver Dragons, and won many 

 prizes with them all. 



When I first knew Mr. Astley 



he was an exhibitor of Fox-terriers, and only gave some of his 

 leisure to dogs and doggy literature; but for many years past 

 though he is one of those men who have altered very little in the 

 last twenty years he has nearly, or quite, given up showing, being 

 on the staff of some well-known papers, and has done an immense 

 amount of judging. 



He is not long in making up his mind about a dog, and can 

 probably dispose of a fairly large class as quickly as any one I 

 know, and that he does not make many mistakes is proved by his 

 decisions not being disputed 



Mr. Astley gets over a lot of ground and through a lot of work, 

 and neither seem to trouble him very much, and the respect- 

 able entries he gets at the numerous shows where he acts as the 

 "all-round judge" show he enjoys the confidence of large numbers 

 of Doggy People. 



It is not only in dogs Mr. Astley is interested, as he has been a 

 successful breeder and exhibitor of poultry and cats, and has some- 

 times acted as a judge of the latter. 



I am pleased to be able to give my readers a good portrait of this 

 well-known judge, which will be recognised by many with whom his 

 face is so familiar, as he must have troops of acquaintances and 

 friends in the ranks of Doggy People. 



