The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-03-02

"FAKED DOGS"
the Animals Are MSltreated TO
Make Pets of Different
Types.

lime was when dog shows were asso-
led with beer and the church war
pipe in an East end or wayside pub
khouse, when the owner of a cham
Jon bulldog fed his pet on a pound of
hmp steak and let his family starve
Spon crust. The dog, too, got all the
Hcks.
In our days we have changed all that.
The old-time dog show still obtains,
and you may occasionally see it adver-
lftised 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
hostrils at stated times stopped a
Iproper system of respiration. The mod
ern faker takes the relics of the older
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 soft and tender cartilage state
| To-day these methods are not so neces-
sary, for 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 type
striven for is still helped"
When the modern bulldog is chosen
from litter of pups the loosest-skinned
Is marked out to work upon, and then.
to put it kindly, "the fun begins" AS
| the pup gets along in life he is submit
ted to process of skin pulling until his
head is one mass of wrinkled skin and
| hanging rolls offur. Painless, of course,
but still it is talking"
The more INSCRIPTIONS 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 forelegs
out at the elbow to give breadth of
| chest and general all-round looseness
| of appearance, but this is confined to
few.
Bloodhounds, too, and pugs both have
| to be helped" at times, if nature does
not conform to the fashion. Landseer's
| lovely big-eyed bloodhound in his pic
ture, Dignity and Independence, is
not to the taste of modern connoisseurs.
He must be padded with roll upon roll
of loose skin; his ears must hang low
down, and the eyes are all but sightless,
hidden away as they are in overhanging
| brows.
Most people will notice how beauti-
fully the highly bred collie drops his
ears over. Well, there are dog takers
| who keep in the dark, who, if they hap
pen to possess a good pup whose ears
are too strong, and consequently will
| not drop over run needle through the
ear under the skin, and keep the head
in splints, as il were, for some time, I'M
| til the ears drop.
Other methods are followed to weak
en- the nerves of the ears. Sometimes
drop of acid is put on the nerve, and
the ears are pulled and flaps of weight
| ed wood are fastened to them.
Other ways of taking dogs include
the pulling out of white hairs and the
| dyeing of patches of white fur too big
to be pulled out. Cropping and docking
still fourishes openly, although the
| kennel club rules are framed to stop
all taking.
1t is left, however, for women to do
great work in stamping out the arts
and lodges of bygone. Inenlightened
| time, and in the Ladies' Kennel associa-
ton we possess great purpose in do
ing away with all fakes and fads Of dog
| dealers.-London News