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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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has been known to fault an otherwiseperfect dog because of the presence of afew white hairs in its jet black coat ; butit is interesting to note that in the littersof his own breeding at Wolverhamptonthere occasionally occurred puppies of apale golden, almost liver colour. His famousMidnight, remarkable for the pure blacknessof her coat, more than once threw sandy-coloured whelps to a black sire. Thisoccurs in many good strains. Contemporaneously with the success ofDr. Moores kennels in 1870 some admirablytypical Retrievers were shown by other breeders, notably Mr. Atkinsons Cato, Mr.Shorthoses Rupert, Mr. Strawbridges Rose,Mr. Hazlehursts Midnight, Mr. G. D. GorsesWyndham, Sailor, and Jet, Mr. R. J. LloydPrices Moliere, and Mr. G. Mansons Morley.Another very prominent admirer and breederwas the late Mr. S. E. Shirley, the Presidentof the Rennel Club, who owned manyRetrievers superlative both as workers andas show dogs, and who probably did morefor the breed than any other man of his
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REGINALD COOKE s CH. WIMPOLE PETER. MAUD EARL. generation. A sportsman in every sense,Mr. Shirley trained his dogs for work withextreme care, and only bred from those ofthe highest character. If only for his im-provements in this one breed, the shootingworld owes his memory undying gratitude.Among the best Retrievers of his breedingwere Paris, Moonstone, Zelstone, Dusk,Lady Evelyn, Trace, and Thorn. Mr. Shirleys work was carried on by Mr.Harding Cox, who devoted much time andenergy to the production of good Retrievers,many of which were of Mr. Shirleys strain.Mr. Coxs dogs deservedly achieved con- 2S8 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. siderable fame for their levelness of type,and the improvement in heads so noticeableat the present time is to be ascribed to hisbreeding for this point. Mr. L. Allen Shuter,the owner of Ch. Darenth and other excellent

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