The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-19
DOGS ARE FAXED"
Cruel Methods of Making Pets Con-
form to Fashion.
A Ions Course OF MaItreatment Has
Produced MalfOrmationa as
Permanent Types
of Dogs.

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ciated with beer and the church war
den pipe in an East end or wayside pub
lie house, when the owner of cham
pion bulldog fed his pet on pound OF
rump steak and let his family starve
upon crust. The dog, too, got all the
kicks
In our days we have changed all that.
The old-time dog show still obtains,
and you may occasionally see il adver-
tised in the sporting papers, but there
are two powerful associations, who
each in their way, with wealthy purses,
have improved the lot of the modern
day dog and given him social status.
But with all the power of these two
associations against them the tricks
and lodges of the dog takers of old still
obtain. They have simply changed
their coats.
The dog faker of the past, to get a
very small breed of pet dogs, kept the
lungs of the animals closed by compress
sion in puppyhood and by plugging the
nostrils at stated times stopped a
proper system of respiration. The mod
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days and inbreeds from the smallest
type of dog, and regulates the feeding
of his animals.
To make the eyes of toy spaniels
large, bulgy and round and the coats
a rich color the animals were kept
among the beer barrels in the public
house cellars in perpetual darkness,
while the spaniel pups were helped"
in the matter of becoming very short
| nosed by having the bones surrounding
| the nose pressed to the head while they
were in a soft anditender cartilage state
To-day these methods are not so neces-
sary. for a long course of taking
through many generations has at last
produced the malformation as a per
manent type, but in the spaniel and
many other breeds of dogs the typt
striven for is still "helped" /"
When the modern bulldog is choser
from litter of pups the loosest-skinneC
is marked out to work upon, and then
to put it kindly, ''the fun begins" A:
the pup gets along in life he is submit
ted to process of skin pulling until hi
head is one mass of wrinkled skin anC
hangingrolls offur. Painless, of course
but still it is taking"
The more unscrupulous give an arti
fetal kink to the puppy's tail by break
ing the vertebra where nature has for
gotten to do it, and pulling the foreleg
out at the elbow to give breadth o
chest and general all-round loosenes
of appearance, but this is confined t
few
Bloodhounds, too, and pugs both hav
to be helped" at times if nature doe
not conform TO the fashion. Landseer'
lovely big-eyed bloodhound in his pic
ture, Dignity and independence. /
not to the taste of modern connoisseurs
He must be padded with roll upon rol
of loose skin; his ears must hang 10y
down, and the eyes are all but sightles'
hidden away as they are in overhangin
brows.
Most people will notice how beaut
fully the highly bred collie drops Ri
ears over. Well, there are dog faker
who keep in the dark, who if they haI
pen to possess good pup whose ear
9 are too strong, and consequently wi
not drop over run a needle through tn
ear under the skin, and keep the hea
in splints, as it were, for some time, III
til the ears drop.
Other methods are followed TO veal
en- the nerves of the ears. Sometime
a drop of acid is put on the nerve, an
the ears are pulled and flaps Of weigh
ed wood are fastened to them
Other ways of taking dogs includ
the pulling out of white hairs and tn
dyeing of patches Of white fur too bi
to be pulled out Cropping andldockin
still fourishes openly, although th
kennel club rules are framed to sto
all taking.
1t is left however, for women TO q
great work in stamping out the ar
and lodges Of bygone unenlightene
time, and in the Ladies' Kennel associ
ton we possess a great purpose in d
ing away with all fakes and fads of dc
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