New-York tribune., 1908-07-26
CANINE BEAUTY DOCTORS.
Noses Shortened, Tails Made Kinky
and LEGS BO1ced.

The operators at canine beauty boudoir are,
rs a rule. dog breeders. They have kennels,
more or less extensive, where they fancy
and costly stock, and important branch of
their work is the artificial improving of dogs.
They are able to give a straight tail that should
be kinky the requisite curls and twists, trans
form a King Charles spaners that is too
long and pendulous into the shortened and
turned up variety and make a straight coat
permanently curly BY means of these surgical
operations the value of a puppy may increase
as much as 200 to 800 per cent
One fashionable dog breeder conducts canine
beauty parlor in huge field. The beauty par
Ior is not so sumptuous as those wherein women
are massaged and manicured and electrically
rejuvenated, and its patients do not subject so
willingly to treatment do women.
The building is of one story, well lighted and
dry The stalls are very clean and nice and well
lighted. passage runs down the middle, and
on either sidc roomy stalls, with doors OF
wire lattice work. Through this lattice work
the inmates of the stalls may be seen. Here is
q bulldog with both forelegs bandaged from foot
to shoulder. Here is a spaniel with its nose In
some sort of white mould There you see a
snowy little poodle pup with its ears tied up.
Here is a fox terrier fastened down to plank,
SO that it may not rub off the chemical solution
1--WE keep this place." said the breeder. "as
sanitary as a hospital. We have to. If
didn't the dogs that we operate would die.
So every day we air the straw bedding, and
every third we change 1t. Twice a week we
flood out the whole budng-wash it with
hose then dry it, then disinfect it. The result is
that none of our operations ever results fatally"
The room adjoining is fitted up operat
ing theatre On one of the tables sat tiny
white poodle. 1t charming. with its long
fluff of snowy hair, but 1t had one blemish-
while lay down in the proper way the
other stood straight up. An assistant was about
to operate on 1t.
The man injected into the erect ear a few
drops of cocaine from a hypodernfc syringe.
This rendered the ear quite insensible to pain.
Then. with tiny lance, he made a scarcely per-
ceptible cut in certain tendon. Instantly the
ear fell over The tendon had been like back
bone to it, and now this tendon being severed,
# would always hereafter lie prone like its
mate Before this operation the dog worth
only about los, but after the operation it could
have been sold easily for f6.
Another dog this time a big Newfoundland,
was brought in. 1t was fine specimen, black
In color, with the exception of small spot on
the breast But if the dog to be perfect
the white spot must be removed.
Three solutions were applied carefully to the
white spot. First, a colorless solution; then
milky one. and finally black one. While the
dog was held still the spot that had been treated
was now famed vigorously till it dried. 1t had
then precisely the same brilliant hue of black
that belonged to the rest of the coat
No matter what blemishes dog may have
the pert operator can easily remove them,
with little pain to the patients" The
charges, of course, fairly high. seeing that
most OF their customers are people Of means.
Here is list of a few of the principal opera
lions:
Altering shape of nose, f2; making straight
tails kinky curly, fl; removing or adding
marks FL changing erect ears to dropping, and