FOREIGN NON-SPORTING AND UTILITY 
reason or provocation the old hatred of strangers 
will assert itself, more especially if he happens 
to be suddenly aroused or startled. 
“ Bhotean’s journey through India was an 
expensive one, as he had to have a carriage to 
himself. He effectually cleared the platform at 
all stations where we stopped, and where he 
was given exercise. Anyone who knows what 
an Indian platform is like on arrival of the 
mail train will appreciate 
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allowed to lapse into neglect when those 
purposes have ceased to exist. When the 
wolf died out of Ireland, the dog that had 
hunted it became scarce, and would probably 
have become altogether extinct, but for the 
energy of one man who secured its preserva- 
tion. The continuance of a working breed 
depends very largely upon the continuance 
the good work he did 
amongst an excitable and 
voluble crowd of natives. 
As regards the acclimat- 
isation of these dogs, it 
is a slow process. The 
enormous coat they come 
down from Thibet in 
gradually dies off, and a 
dog, arriving in England 
at the beginning of a 
year, does not grow his 
new coat until the follow- 
ing year, during the sum- 
mer and autumn. He 
therefore takes eighteen 
months thoroughly to ac- 
clmatise. 
“They want a great 
deal of exercise, and from 
my own experience of 
them in India and in this 
country, they will never 
live under the conditions 
to which they are com- 
pelled to adhere at the 
Zoological Gardens. 
“They are most com- 
panionable, and devoted 
to their own master, but 
are quick to resent pun- 
ishment, and brood over it for some time. 
A good scolding occasionally, with firm but 
kind treatment, will make them your devoted 
slaves, although nothing you can do will 
eradicate what is really the dog’s nature, viz. 
to consider strangers as your and his own 
personal enemies. He takes no notice of dogs, 
unless they notice him first. Women and 
children he pays no attention to. Any little 
child would be perfectly safe with him.” 
The Pyrenean Dog.—In all lands where 
special dogs have formerly been kept and 
used for specific purposes, they have been 
M. DRETZEN'S PYRENEAN DOG CH. PORTHOS 
BY PATOU——PASTOURE 
been 
what 
would become of our perfect Foxhounds 
if disease or some other 
of the occupation for which it has 
adapted, and one can easily imagine 
disaster were to 
put an end to the breeding capacities of 
the fox. Our famous packs would all be 
drafted, and Marksman and Ranger would 
quickly degenerate into lazy loungers at 
the fireside. 
Fortunately for the continuance of dis- 
tinctive national types, there are enthusiastic 
lovers of the dog who are watchful that no 
breed that is worth preserving shall be 
