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is an expert swimmer, and will delight to enter the wet 
element at any time. The Rottweiler is strong in de¬ 
fense and fidelity, has a good nose, but lacks some of 
the finishing touches that make the others so attractive 
to even those that are not specially looking for police 
dog points. He is a worker in a worker’s garb. 
Holland and Belgium breed and recommend the short- 
coated Belgian sheep dogs and the Groenendaals. 
named after the castle of Groenendaal. Both have 
Hertha Doberman, while trailing finds a revolver. 
prick ears. There is not much to choose between; they 
are a trifle lighter boned and shaped than the Ger¬ 
man shepherds, but in other respects very much re¬ 
semble them, to which they are a cousin variety. 
DOBERMAN-PINSCHER. 
A purely German product, produced by a German in 
Germany out of German breeds. A Herr Dobermann, 
a native of Apolda, a small city in Thuringen, an ardent 
dog fancier and judge of doggy service qualities, a man 
that knew a dog’s intrinsic value as a helper, and loved 
to improve natural inclinations through judicious breed¬ 
ing, careful eliminations and persistent training, has^ the 
credit of having given us this now world-famed “dog 
with human brains.” 
Dobermann was the official dog catcher, the man that 
is supposed to do away with the odds and ends that 
cannot call his native city a home. He has now been 
dead some twenty-five years; hence I need not mince 
matters. In connection with two friends, one of them 
the watchman in the church tower, who had to ring 
the “alarum bell” whenever fire broke out, or the city 
fathers were called together for a session, loved, next 
to dogs, good health-giving beer; and the three to in- 
Hertha Doberman follows trail through window. 
vest all their earnings in this “liqu'd bread,” as they 
considered it, was a rule of the-.r lives, which they 
never broke. A bitch, rather small, in color gray and 
very wiry, exceptionally sharp on vermin, a free breeder, 
was the favorite and original breeder of Dobermann. 
She is the greatest great grand-dam of all that now be¬ 
long to this breed. She was exceptionally inte.ligent, 
and could read her master’s orders on his face before 
a word was uttered. In crossing her with various dogs 
that came into his hands during the natural run of his 
duties, he finally perfected a larger dog, gave him a 
stronger physique, and received ultimately a specimen 
that “carried a chip on his shoulder” at all times. We 
are not wrong in presuming that the large Tottweihr, a 
breed formerly largely used by the German butchers, 
and the black-and-tan German sheep dog had to 
furnish some blood to make the new breed. The original 
bitch, “Schnuppe,” by name, disappeared after the first 
few crosses, that produced an improvement and that 
held her intelligence along with sharpness for verm'n 
in a stronger body. The name Dobermann, or as we 
spell it here, Doberman, with only one “n,” came 
gradually, because wherever Dobermann or one of his 
Bertel Doberman, first American champion, digging 
hidden plunder. 
thirsty comrades saw a dog on the street of the make-up 
or build they had started, they would sing out at once, 
“See, there, our dog,” or words to that effect, and the 
children being the first to take it up, did not lag in 
running for mamma’s apron if a Doberman came along. 
In fact, the very word “Doberman” meant for a^ time 
“savageness, ugliness and freedom from restraint,” and 
Doberman Oriol, owned by Mrs. R. F. Sh'elley,Geneva, O 
to get away from a dog of that kind was considered the 
better part of valor. I am glad to state that judicious 
breeding and training has corrected this original wild 
blood, turning it into proper channels, and we now have 
a dog that will not show the inherited tendencies ex¬ 
cept in the defense, where need be, of his master or his 
family. 
A Mr. Husman, who often imported large droves of 
cattle from Switzerland, which he drove home to Central 
Germany aided by dogs, claims that he brought along 
at one time some that were afterward perfected into 
what we now call the Doberman police dogs. Others 
again say that the gray sheep dog, described hereafter, 
crossed on genuine Russian wolf is in them. Judging 
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Strand, London, England. 
