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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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With
the
advent
of
the
Hinks
strain
in
1862
the
short-faced
dog
fell
into
disrepute,
and
pure
white
became
the
accepted
colour.
There
was
a
wide
latitude
in
the
matter
of
weight.
If
all
other
points
were
good,
a
dog
might
weigh
anything
between
10
and
38
lbs.,
but
classes
were
usually
divided
for
those
above
and
those
below
16
lb.
The
type
became
fixed,
and
it
was
ruled
that
the
perfect
Bull-terrier
"must
have
a
long
head,
wide
between
the
ears,
level
jaws,
a
small
black
eye,
a
large
black
nose,
a
long
neck,
straight
fore-legs,
a
small
hare
foot,
a
narrow
chest,
deep
brisket,
powerful
loin,
long
body,
a
tail
set
and
carried
low,
a
fine
coat,
and
small
ears
well
hung
and
dropping
forward."
Idstone,
who
wrote
this
description
in
1872,
earnestly
insisted
that
the
ears
of
all
dogs
should
be
left
uncut
and
as
Nature
made
them;
but
for
twenty
years
thereafter
the
ears
of
the
Bull-terrier
continued
to
be
cropped
to
a
thin,
erect
point.
The
practice
of
cropping,
it
is
true,
was
even
then
illegal
and
punishable
by
law,
but,
although
there
were
occasional
convictions
under
the
Cruelty
to
Animals
Act,
the
dog
owners
who
admired
the
alertness
and
perkiness
of
the
cut
ear
ignored
the
risk
they
ran,
and
it
was
not
until
the
Kennel
Club
took
resolute
action
against
the
practice
that
cropping
was
entirely
abandoned.
The
president
of
the
Kennel
Club,
Mr.
S.
E.
Shirley,
M.
P.,
had
himself
been
a
prominent
owner
and
breeder
of
the
Bull-terrier.
His
Nelson,
bred
by
Joe
Willock,
was
celebrated
as
an
excellent
example
of
the
small-sized
terrier,
at
a
time,
however,
when
there
were
not
a
great
many
competitors
of
the
highest
quality.
His
Dick,
also,
was
a
remarkably
good
dog.
Earlier
specimens
which
have
left
their
names
in
the
history
of
the
breed
were
Hinks's
Old
Dutch,
who
was,
perhaps,
even
a
more
perfect
terrier
than
the
same
breeder's
Madman
and
Puss.
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