THE SKYE TERRIER. 



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jaw with perfectly fitting teeth, a small of ear being a decided defect. The 



hazel eye, and a long hard coat just reach- drop-eared variety is usually the heavier 



ing the ground. In the prick-eared variety and larger dog of the two ; and for some 



the ears are carried erect, with verj^ fine reason does not show the quality and 



ear feathering, and the face fringe is long breeding of its neighbour. Lately, however, 



and thick. The ear feathering and face there has evident!}' been an effort made to 



fall are finer in quality than the coat, improve the drop-eared tj^^e, with the 



which is exceedingly hard and weather- result that some very excellent dogs have 



resisting. And here it is well to point out recently appeared at the important shows. 



Probably Mr. James Pratt has devoted 

 more time and attention to the cult of the 



that the Skye has two distinct coats : the 



imder coat, somewhat soft and woolly, and 



the upper, hard and 



rainproof. This upper 



coat should be as 



straight as possible. 



without any tendency 



to wave or curl. The 



tail is not ver^' long, 



ard should be nicely 



feathered, and in repose 



never raised above the 



level of the back. 



Some judges insist 

 that the tail of a Skye 

 Terrier should very sel- 

 dom be seen, but be 

 well tucked in between 

 the legs, only the fea- 

 thered point showing at 

 the hocks. Others do 

 not object to what 

 might be called a Setter 

 tail, curving upward 

 slightly above the level 

 of the back ; and it 



may be said that even the best of the breed Skye Terrier than any other now livmg 

 raise the tail in excitement to a height which fancier, though the names of Mr. Kidd and 

 would not be admitted were this its normal Mr. Todd are usually well known. Mr. 

 position. A gay tail ought not to be seriously Pratt's Skyes were allied to the type of 

 objected to. The unpardonable fault is terrier claiming to be the original Skye of 

 when it is set on too high at the root, and the Highlands. The head was not so large, 

 is carried at right angles to the back, curling the ears also were not so heavily feathered, 

 over towards the head. as is the case in the Skye of to-day, and the 



The same description apphes to the colours were very varied, ranging from every 



CH. FAIRFIELD DIAMOND 



BY CH. WOLVERLEY ROY WOLVERLEY DIMPLE, AND 



CH. WOLVERLEY CHUMMIE 



BY WOLVERLEY JOCK WOLVERLEY ROSIE. 



PROPERTY OF MISS ETHEL McCHEANE. 

 rhotocraph by T. Fall. 



drop-eared type, except that the ears 

 in repose, instead of being carried erect, 

 fall evenly on each side of the head. 

 When, however, the dog is e.xcited, the ears 

 are pricked forward, in exactly the same 

 fashion as those of the Airedale Terrier. This 

 is an important point, a houndy carriage 



tint between black and white. He used 

 fondly to carry about with him a pocket- 

 book containing samples of hair from the 

 different dogs he had bred and exhibited. 

 His partiality was for creams and fawns, 

 wnth black points. 



In 1892 a great impetus was given to the 



