The morning call., 1893-05-07
THE KENNEL.
Successful Windup of the Bench

Show.
The Pacific Kennel Club is TO be coDgrat
ulated on its success.
The show which ended last evening at
the-Pavilion proved what good management
and friendly feeling in club matters can do
toward he advancement of any enterprise
or all entertaining features dog show
is one which will never give universal
satisfaction.
Ii is impossible for a Judge, it matters
not hoT competent he may be, to give gen.
eral satisfaction.
Indeed, if gentleman could be uu-
earthed from among the noted Judges of
dog flesh who could or would please all ex-
hi5ltorS, itls safe TO say that his services
world not be in great demand.
Although judges will differ in opinions
and frequently upset the Calculations of
men who have made strenuous endeayors
10 procure the best stock of dogs obtainable.
there are, nevertheless good features at
tached to dog shows. In the first place
exhibitions of. dogs educate people to breed
and raise only the high class standard of
animal, and in the second place they will
assist materially to weed out the numerous
ours that are OF no earthly value to any one
excepting soap-makers.
Il 10 4ue tHdI among the sporting dogs
winners at bench shows frequently prove
10 he decided failures at field trial meetings.
This may occur from various causes
Perhaps the animal that won hGnors at
divers bench shows as being an exact type
of dog that StOnehenge would consider
perfect may have had inferior handling
during its education for field duty; under
circumstances of this kind allowances
should be made for the bench-shOw crack
Again. when judges of bench shows pass
judgment on dogs that are used for upland
shooting, they cannot determine by appear
ances if the animals are possessed Of good
dog sense or if they have the olfactories
necessary to insure success in the field.
dog may have head and nose, both of
which, according to the bench-show rule
would indicate wisdom and keen powers of
SCENT and still when in the field both of
these cardinal qualities would be missing.
a eompetent judge, although unable to
PICK "A held trial winner from among a class
Il show dogs can always hit the nail on
the head when determining the qualities a
dog must possess to give him speed lung
power, stamina, staying qualities, etc.
OF the many judges who have graced this
city by their presence since bench shows
were inauguTated Judge Rsper has unuues-
tiOnably given the most general satisfaction.
or the many dogs he scrutiniZed in the
tdNlliOu fiUR ne mas taken notes Ot eacn an
im1l that was at all worthy of notice
His reason Tor so doing he explained by
saving that frequently he has been called
upon, after Judging hours. 10 point out d.
feels IN dogs that were considered by their
owners as being perfect in every particular
81 always have taken agreeable pleas
ure." remarked Mr.. Raper to THE CALLS
. sporting editor, to point cut the defects in
dogs which frequently have escaped the eye
Of their owners. and by this system have
a rod NJ Too. anf c,f lso,.
ing the anxiety Of many a man who would
certainly have gone away with the idea that
tie Judge was a counterfeit"
Mr.. Raper left yesterday for Seattle, and
of that city he Will journey to New York,
from which place lie will take passage for
Munich.
There are at present as an arnex to the
Pacific Kennel Club St. Bernard and a
fOX-terrier club. On Friday evening the
spaniel fanciers gathered and organized
spaniel club. 1t is hoped that he lovers of
. the greyhound will soon be heard from.
Certainly greyhound club where there
are. so many ''flirro" should be n feature.
Clubs of these kind are bound 10 increase
an interest in doggy matters.
In the European edition of the New York
Herald appears tha following letter, which
Is said 10 be humorous: In reading of the
Nice Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
10 Animals | am constrained to ask il il in
cludes cruelty to dogs inflicted by society
ladies'. l am one who believes that a dogs
life is made up of the joys and sorrows
growing out OF chasing his feline adversary
IN trees. being pelted by the stone-throwing
buy, getting scratched. having his ears
cropped, taking part in the rat pit, the hunt.
the 'cnase, etc. | also believe that whoever
fondles dog from its birth, dresses, combs,
washes and feeds 1t like child. and causes
it to become Inflicted with dyspepsia, gout,
etc, aud so destroys its nature that it no
longer enjoys raw meat, fieas, cat fights and
allthe cognate joys which make up a re-
spectacle and natural dogs existence, is
guilty OF a crime against nature and of ex-
cessive and unealled-fOr cruelty, which
should be severely punished. WIN you
kindly inform a constant reader which is
The position of the Nice society on the fore
going points? | am one Of those who be-
ll-ve thai dog IS dog, not a child TO be
aired by nurses, fondled by unnatural
women and made incapable of enjoying the
pleasures that God crea ted dog to expert
euee."-R. W. T., Cadiz, Spain, March II,
: 1893