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Kennel Club would not give a registration because this owner had been 
suspended and had not the right to register; and the dam being dead, she could 
not be sold to any one having the right to register. Fortunately these were 
cheap dogs and the duty correspondingly light, but on the same steamer 
with them came two or three pick-up dogs of no breeding, and they passed 
in on payment of one or two dollars. If worthless curs were not admitted, 
then there would be some semblance of reason in present rules, but for 
them the door is held wide open, and the stringency is put on the man who 
pays hundreds of dollars for a dog worth having. 
To buy good dogs as per government regulations it is only necessary to 
‘write for pedigrees and buy the dog having the one that reads best, but if 
that is done the buyer might as well make up his mind that if he ever does 
show his pedigree dog he will find that he is beaten out of sight by men who 
bought good dogs and then thought of the pedigree. 
But, the reader asks, if pedigree amounts to nothing, how are we to 
buy for breeding purposes, for instance? We have already said that pedi- 
gree is valuable, and it is an essential in the case of purchasing for breeding, 
but we again repeat that if the buyer does not know something regarding 
the dogs in the pedigree, either personally or from reliable information, one 
string of names is as good as another to him. Here is a case in point as 
shown in the following Irish terrier pedigree: 
. Red Idol 
Kaiser Kriffel 
Sire oe me Ch. Breda Mixer 
King’s he Red Inez 
Breda D 
Nastersiece Balmoral Bill Seeger 
Killarney Lily Red Idol 
Saintfeld Midge Shankill Violet 
Red Ire 
Red Idol . Breda Iris 
Kaiser 1100,C. Ch. Breda Mixer 
Dam Kriffel Knoxonia 
: The Irish 
Koerchion Ch. Breda Mixer B oo 
Kindle oe Ch. Bachelor 
SG MEA Breda Florence 
