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late Mr. George Krehl and the late Mr. 
Tooth, Unser Fritz, Wenzel Erdmannsheim, 
and Khaki Erdmannsheim, sired many useful 
Dachshunds, but their colour was not in 
vogue, and breeders hesitated to introduce 
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dapple blood into their kennels. Of these 
dapples Unser Fritz, a small dark silver 
dapple, was the most successful, and mated 
to the English-bred dapple bitch Tiger 
Tessie, sired some wonderful youngsters 
which competed and more than held their 
own with the other colours in the ring. 
It is impossible to enumerate the hundred 
and one champions and famous winners that 
have flitted across the stage of life during 
twenty-five years, or are still living; but 
the large majority of them trace their 
pedigrees back to Champions Jackdaw and 
Pterodactyl, and an examination of the 
family trees of the most noted Dachshunds 
of to-day will show how closely they are 
related one to another. 
A very serious aspect of the inbreeding 
craze 1s the mental deterioration involved ; 
not only in Dachshunds, but in many other 
breeds of dogs kept and bred for ‘ fancy” 
points, and not working qualities. In the 
case of Dachshunds we have lost grit and 
gameness to an alarming extent, and even 
ordinary intelligence, and in these respects 
the English dog is immeasurably the in- 
ferior of the German dog. It goes without 
saying that we have lost stamina too, and 
I was even told a short time ago by a 
prominent exhibitor that Dachshunds should 
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not be taken out to exercise on the roads 
because it made them go unsound ! Shade of 
Jackdaw, what do you think of that! 
A Dachshund that cannot do a day’s 
work on the roads when required is a 
travesty of what a Dachshund should be. 
If exercise brings out unsoundness, you 
must look elsewhere for the fault—to his 
anatomy. Inbreeding to a specified extent 
is resorted to, to stamp certain characteristics 
onatype; but it must be borne in mind that 
both good and bad points exist, and both 
may be transmitted, and whilst you may 
get almost perfection physically, you may 
at the same time reach insanity, mentally, 
by inbreeding. 
In 1881 the prominent English breeders 
formed the Dachshund Club, and set about 
drawing up a “standard of points”? as a 
guide for the breeding and judging of the 
Dachshund. At this time no similar club 
or standard of points existed in Germany, 
and our English club was therefore obliged 
to rely on such evidence as it could collect 
from individuals in Germany, no two of 
whom probably were in exact agreement, 
and on their own powers of observation 
coupled with that innate faculty of our 
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race in all matters appertaining to the 
breeding by selection of pure stock of any 
animal, which has made us famous the 
world over, for the drawing up of what was 
a most important document. 
