Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-13
DOGS ON HIRE SYSTEM.
Ladies Who Order Animals to Match
Their Dresses.

From the London Mirror.
For a variety of reasons-most of them,
it is whispered. not unconnected with
| enthusiastically ladies no longer keep
dogs in the house. but hire them from
shops instead.
In this way, it is claimed, everything
that dog has to offer in the way of
companionship is obtained, while all the
petty inconvenience attendant on keep
ing one in London house are avoided.
And, living under the care of profess
SIGNALS. the dog itself, urge the followers
| of the hire system, is better off, too, even
| though the growth of the practice may
! finally Danish it forever from the COM
| fort of the best armchair.
| Whatever may be the opinions of the
| canine world on this new departure, the
| hire system is already well under way,
| as will be gathered from the following
| interview given to the Daily Mirror yes
terday by the proprietress of dog shop
| in the West End of London.
People first started hiring pet dogs
| from me some months ago. she said.
| land the practice has grown and grown
until at the present time / have at least
four hires q week from this little shop
alone.
Miniature Yorkshire. Poms and Pekin-
| csc are the varieties usually asked for,
| and. having decided on the animal
whose cOlOT DeSl ieT III cos anu
style, the customer (nearly always a
| LADY, deposits from one and a half to
| four guineas and departs with her charge
| for the time agreed upon-usually halt
day.
| cessive when the value of the dog is con-
sidered. Regular customers, OF course
keep an account here.
| MY dogs are hired for various pur-
poses. Odd as it may appear, many
/ j,,ct y.ftyht af
beast an Indispensable 'set-off' to their
| gowns: and others just like to be seen
| about with the animals.
Others. again. are women whose fond
ness for toys does not quite amount tt
! a desire to keep them: and there are
| those ladies who take a dog out with
them for protection, imagining, perhaps
that they are less trouble than man.
| Customers do not always give one
their confidence, but many people,
| parties others to the church parade III
the park. Sunday is great day.
But. for whatever purpose they re-
| quire the animals, they are always par
week a lady drove up hurriedly, and
| handing me pattern of her dress, asked
would / get her "a dog to match, please
| at once She returned the animal In
| about four hours.
| Naturally, l watch the fashionable
colors carefully. and arrange my dogs
accordingly. Furs are often difficult.
! Not all my clients, you see, are SO &C
| commodating recent one, who, ind
| ing l could not quite suit her, said, Oh
| very we'll let me have the gray griffin
and I'll order costume to match 1t. "
| Messrs Whiteley informed the Daily
Mirror that they, too, let out dogs or
| hire.
| II don't know exactly why" said ar
official, ''but our dog hirers are rather
coy. and they seldom tell us for what
particular function they want the dog.
Unusually it is just to pose for a pic
ture. you know but whether for living
| picture or not / have no means of know
ing Nor does it matter. So long as
people treat the animals properly. we are
only too happy to hire out our dogs