76 The Dog Book 



Kennel Club took such speedy action as to give a lesson to all that there 

 must be no "dishonourable conduct in connection with dogs." The penalty 

 for that is disqualification, and that carries with it disqualification of 

 all dogs passing through the hands of the disqualified person and the 

 refusal to register them in the official stud-book or allow them to be 

 shown if it is known that they were the property of the disqualified 

 person. It is a very severe penalty, and as it practically kills off the best 

 part of a dealer's business they are as a class very careful to deal fairly. 

 We have seen the most ludicrous things done by purchasers of dogs. 

 More than once we have known of a dealer sending quite a nice white bull 

 terrier to a purchaser only to have it returned with the demand that one 

 with brindle markings be sent, and charging all sorts of things because such 

 a poor dog had been sent. Of course the vendor was only too happy to make 

 such a change and please such a knowing customer, who doubtless let it be 

 fully known how he was too sharp to be swindled by a dealer and had made 

 this particular one come to time in quick order. 



Dealers are not nomads, but it will be found that nearly every one, in 

 the East at least, has occupied the same premises for years, or if a change 

 has been made it has been for the better. Rogues cannot do this, for not 

 only is the Kennel Club court open to all without a cent of expense, but 

 the power of the police and the United States post-office can be invoked to 

 good purpose, so that there is very good evidence in this permanency of 

 location to say that the dealer in dogs is entitled to be above suspicion as 

 much as any other man of a similar number of years' standing in business. 



