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Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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upon as merely the hopeless dream of a and small, dating from sixty to eightyfew enthusiasts! That to get, in a dog years ago, the bat or prick ears are fre-weighing under twenty-two pounds, the quently to be noted ; a fact which weak-ens the contention held bymany that they are thesign of a pure Frenchbreed, originating acrossthe Channel. To enumerate in detailthe Miniature Bulldog scaleof points is quite unnecessary, as it is simplythat of the big ones writ small. In otherwords, the general appearance of theMiniature Bulldog must as nearly as possibleresemble that of the Big Bulldog —a tersesentence which comprises in itself all thatcan be said on the subject. The club has a large and ever-increasingmembership, and possessesthe Duchess of Sutherland asPresident. From its originalstart the Duchess has beena warm supporter of thebreed, and has owned somegood specimens in the past.The Hon. Mrs. Baillie, ofDochfour, is still on thecommittee, and
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enormous size of skull, clod-diness of body, and thick-ness of bone obtainable in aforty-five or sixty pounds spe-cimen, is a hard task there isno denying, but such prodi-gious strides have been madeof late that one feels, givena few more years of patienceand perseverance, it will comevery near fulfilment. Before passing to othermatters, it is perhaps onlyright to mention,with all deferenceto our Gallicfriends, that inmany old printsof Bulldogs, big another mem-ber of the clubis Mr. GeorgeWeinberg, oflarger Bulldogfame. He ownssplendid Photo: 1. hm-lty. H.iij..i.o , THE MINIATURE BULLDOG. 55 miniatures in Tablet and Baby Bullet,and was the former owner of the incom-parable Champion Xo Trumps, one of thebest ever seen. Of this goodly company comes last,but far from least, Mrs. C. F. C. Clarke,

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