7o8 The Dog Book 



matter of weight our ciub has also taken upon itself to ignore the French 

 standard. The latter calls for dogs under ten kilogrammes and bitches un- 

 der nine kilogrammes. The English club while following the French 

 standard very closely did not divide the sexes and says that the weight should 

 be under 24 pounds. The American club has gon,e on a tack of its own 

 entirely and divided by weight in place of by sex, under 22 pounds for the 

 lightweight class and 22 pounds and over for the heavyweight class. Ac- 

 cording to that a dog of 26 or 28 pounds is eligible here whereas he would be 

 disqualified in any country in Europe. Alterations such as these cannot be 

 defended and we are left to surmise what the object was in making them. 



Whether the boule-dogue Fran9ais owes as much to introductions of toy 

 English bulldog blood as the English writers say is the case we are not pre- 

 pared to say. What is very evident is that there is a marked difference in 

 certain respects between the boule-dogue and the miniature bulldog as the 

 small English toy bulldog is now called, a term which well expresses what 

 the little dog is. The boule-dogue is not a miniature bulldog any more than 

 the Boston terrier, and the latter in some respects has quite a resemblance 

 to the Parisian dog. So much have they in common that it would not take 

 long to transform one into the other, and that French blood has been intro- 

 duced into the Boston is more probable than Boston breeders are willing to 

 admit. Knowing what the breeders in Boston have done with the crude 

 material from which they have built up the Boston terrier we do not place 

 a great deal of value upon the claims of English origin as against French 

 cultivation and development of an ideal dog. 



From some of the illustrations of English dogs it is evident that many 

 of the breeders and fanciers of that country have not been able to get away 

 from the toy bulldog idea in connection with the French dog and in many 

 of them the rose ear and the receding upper jaw, or protruding under jaw, 

 show the bent of the fancy toward the English toy or miniature bulldog. 

 The establishment of the two clubs in England and the title for the home 

 dog will, however, straighten this matter out and divide the varieties 

 properly. It is somewhat singular that the American club has almost 

 ignored the question of make and shape of the muzzle and jaws, summing 

 all that very important section of the dog in eight words — "jaws large and 

 powerful, deep, square and undershot." This with the information that 

 the nose must be extremely short and also be very deep from the corner of 

 the eye to the corner of the mouth is all the guide we have to one of the most 



