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. 
