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dogs at all, and some of whom I have met with who did not even 

 know the " kennel names " of their dogs, nor could venture to take 

 them from the benches unless the kennelman was there ! 



Mrs. Hunter has always been a lover of dogs, but of Poodles in 

 particular, although she is now turning her attention to Toy 

 Pomeranians as well. The first Poodle she showed was Juliette, at 

 the Crystal Palace, 1895, where she was awarded V.H.C., since 



which she has owned 

 Rosalie, Sonnie 

 Buggins, Sayleski, 

 Nereska, and several 

 others of her own 

 breeding, all Curlies. 

 One of the first 

 of her Poodles to 

 take high honours 

 was Sonnie Buggins, 

 a very promising 

 youngster, by Jack 

 ex La Cigale, who 

 was first in Novices 

 at Earl's Court Show, 

 1897, since which 

 she has exhibited 

 Juliette, and taken 

 first and champion- 

 ship at the National 

 Dog Show, Birming- 

 ham ; also first and 

 championship with 

 Rosalie at Royal 

 Aquarium ; and with 

 Sayleski, first at the 

 Royal Botanical 



Gardens; first team, first brace, Cruft's, 1897; her latest im- 

 portant win being second with Nereska at the Royal Botanical 

 Gardens, who had previously been first in Puppies at Crystal 

 Palace. From the foregoing it will be seen that if Mrs. Hunter 

 has not kept a large kennel, it has had good specimens in it, 

 and because she is an ardent fancier who nearly always shows 

 stock of her own breeding, and not without success in keen 



From photo by R. B. Lodge, Enfield 



MRS. FRED HUNTER WITH HER POODLES 



