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THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. 



invincible), \V. Speed, J. Smithson, Junior; 

 J. S. Smithson, \V. Pendlebury, and Major 

 Brine, the latter of whom has, after years 

 of difficult labour, compiled a stud-book 

 giving, as far as possible, the names and 

 pedigrees of all terriers known to have 

 existed. 



In Canada and the United States, Miss 

 Beardmore, [Major Carnochan, the Misses 

 de Coppett, Mr. Franklyn Lord, Mr. F. G. 

 Llo3'd, and Mr. Ben S. Smith (the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Welsh Terrier Club of 

 America), have all rendered yeoman service 

 to the breed, and own some excellent 

 representatives of it. 



On the formation of the Welsh Terrier 

 Club in 1885, a standard of perfection was 

 drawn up and circulated with the club 

 rules. This standard has remained un- 

 changed up to the present day, and is as 

 follows : — 



1. Head. — The skull should be flat and rather 

 wider between the ears than the wire hair Fox- 

 terrier. The jaw should be powerful, clean cut, 

 rather deeper and more punishing — giving the 

 head a more masculine appearance — than that 

 usually seen in a Fox-lerrier. The stop not too 

 defined, fair length from stop to end of nose, 

 the latter being of a black colour. 



2. Ears. — The ears should be V-shaped, small, 

 not too thin, set on fairly high, carried forward, 

 and close to the cheek. 



3. Eyes. — The eyes should be small, not being 

 too deeply set in or protruding out of skull, of a 

 dark hazel colour, expressi\e and indicating 

 abundant pluck. 



4. Neck. — The neck should be of moderate 

 length and thickness, slightly arched and sloping 

 gracefully into the shoulders. 



5. Body. — The back should be short and well 

 ribbed up, the loin strong, good depth, and 

 moderate width of chest. The shoulders should 

 be long, sloping and well set back. The hind- 

 quarters should bo strong, thighs muscular and of 

 good length, with the hocks moderately straight, 

 well set down and fair amount of bone. The stem 

 should be set on moderately high, but not too 

 gaily carried. 



6. Legs and Feet. — The legs should be straight 

 and muscular, possessing fair amount of bone 

 witli upright and powerful pasterns. The feet 

 should be small, round and catlike. 



7. Coat. — The coat should be wirj', hard, very 

 close and abundant. 



8. Colour. — The colour should be black and tan 

 or black grizzle and tan, free from black pencilling 

 on toes. 



9. Size. — The height at shoulders should be 

 15 inches for dogs, bitches proportionately less. 

 Twenty pounds shall be considered a fair average 

 weight in working condition, but this may varj' a 

 pound or so either \\ay. 



There was no standard bej'ond this until 

 the year 1905, it evidently not being thought 

 necessary to have a standard of points as 

 nearly all other breeds had. However, at 

 the Birmingham general meeting of the 

 club in that year, a points standard, 

 whicli had been previously considered and 

 drafted by a specially appointed committee, 

 was, after mature consideration, adopted, and 

 is as follows : — 



Disqualifying Points. 



1. Nose white, cherry, or spotted to a consider- 

 able extent with either of these colours. 



2. Ears prick, tulip, or rose. 



3. L'ndershot jaw or pig jawed mouth. 



4. Black below hocks or white an^-where to anv 

 appreciable extent, black pencilling on toes. 



This standard was very carefully diawn 

 up with a view to appraising fairly the differ- 

 ent parts of the dog, and not, as is the case 

 in some such standards, to value too highly 

 fancy and other points at the expense of 

 parts of the dog entitled in reality to just 

 as much recognition. It is believed to be 

 the best appraisement of a wire-hair terrier 

 yet drawn up. 



