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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Admitting
that
the
dogs
seen
at
our
best
contemporary
shows
are
superlative
examples
of
scientific
selection,
one
has
yet
to
acknowledge
that
the
process
of
breeding
for
show
points
has
its
disadvantages,
and
that,
in
the
sporting
and
pastoral
varieties
more
especially,
utility
is
apt
to
be
sacrificed
to
ornament
and
type,
and
stamina
to
fancy
qualities
not
always
relative
to
the
animal's
capacities
as
a
worker.
The
standards
of
perfection
and
scales
of
points
laid
down
by
the
specialist
clubs
are
usually
admirable
guides
to
the
uninitiated,
but
they
are
often
unreasonably
arbitrary
in
their
insistence
upon
certain
details
of
form--generally
in
the
neighbourhood
of
the
head--while
they
leave
the
qualities
of
type
and
character
to
look
after
themselves
or
to
be
totally
ignored.
It
is
necessary
to
assure
the
beginner
in
breeding
that
points
are
essentially
of
far
less
moment
than
type
and
a
good
constitution.
The
one
thing
necessary
in
the
cultivation
of
the
dog
is
to
bear
in
mind
the
purpose
for
which
he
is
supposed
to
be
employed,
and
to
aim
at
adapting
or
conserving
his
physique
to
the
best
fulfilment
of
that
purpose,
remembering
that
the
Greyhound
has
tucked-up
loins
to
give
elasticity
and
bend
to
the
body
in
running,
that
a
Terrier
is
kept
small
to
enable
him
the
better
to
enter
an
earth,
that
a
Bulldog
is
massive
and
undershot
for
encounters
in
the
bullring,
that
the
Collie's
ears
are
erected
to
assist
him
in
hearing
sounds
from
afar,
as
those
of
the
Bloodhound
are
pendant,
the
more
readily
to
detect
sounds
coming
to
him
along
the
ground
while
his
head
is
bent
to
the
trail.
Nature
has
been
discriminate
in
her
adaptations
of
animal
forms;
and
the
most
perfect
dog
yet
bred
is
the
one
which
approaches
nearest
to
Nature's
wise
intention.
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