The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
THE CORRECT SIZE
OF THE AIREDALE

Ut AAlIEiOAA
Three questions have troubled sports
men at various times, two of which are
now out OF date. Firstly. What IS an
amateur" Secondly. What is a cocker
spanielya And now we may have for
the proper size or weight of the Aire-
dale terrier. My experience of all these
discussions is that it is not SO much
owner has or wishes to put to the
front. You will find that the man who
Is In favor OF small Airedale has no
large ones in his kennel, and when he
bought his dogs he had an idea that
he wanted only small ones. On the
other hand, man who has loaded
nimseI up with large ones has no use
A good deal of the discussion has
been carried on by those who have had
no experience of the Airedale as dog
the coast last October that the men
who used the Aireda1e on big game
wanted big dog. Those who went in
more for shows indicated preference
that the men in the east who partici-
pated In the last newspaper discussion
had never seen a bear outside of
chain. so to that added the fact that
the kind of dog each advocated was
what he happened at that time to have
as his best dog.
The Airedale for us is quite a differ
ent dog from the Aireda1e OF England,
whose highest deeds OF valor consist in
killing water rats, field amply % GOV. ~.
want here is dog capable of taking
his own part against big game-cats,
lynx. cougar and bear-in addition to
being q general utility dog as q
tracker. I am quite OF the opinion that
the addition of terrier to this breed is
misnomer. have for years struck
On fPs Mafes an am ax to
but poodle with q silky coat, and
comes from the spaniel family. I was
the first to obliterate Pekinese spaniel
ing the "g.' as evidence of how to spell
Peking. So in this case, as the dog
is not a terrier-that is, dog to go to
and Mr.. Paimer's suggestion to cali
him simply the Airedale dog is one to
be indorsed- Then we would not have
1a s to size the score
in the original discussion in London
when Vero Shaw brought word that
they had terrier down in Yorkshire
and and Dalzlei. the two London kennel
editors, taken my view on the question,
the dog would never have had terrier"
tackled on to his name: but they let
the opportunity pass, and by an as
similation of names he finally. became
the Airedale terrier, though he is there
after foxes or badgers or even water
rats-Mr. James Watson, the noted
dog Judge. in Country Life in America
SOME VALUATION
Talking about some persons esti-
mate of the value of a dog. we must.
tell Of letter we recently received
of the Dog Fancier from a news stand.
He wrote us: Enclosed is a clipping
from your paper, with picture of dog
for MY neighbor paid for the same
kind, male pup, IS. | am willing to
pay the same price. Can you get me
male pup on that line? Please let me
The clipping he sent advertised stud
dog which the owner would laugh at
an offer of 5000 for."-The Dog Fancier.
SOMETHING A DOG ENJOYS
1t was most clever thought that
prompted the making of a dog biscuit
ton, appetizing bone, with protuberan-
ces at the ends and plain sailing in
the middle. All of US know how much
a dog likes bone, and to watch him
carry his biscuit bone away to gnaw
and chew in the most natural manner
on neighboring mat or grass plat is
to witness genuine act of enjoyment
Everything connected with the act Is
true to dog ways, even the occasional
sidelong glance to guard against> the
approach of an interloper who might
grateful look that gives thanks for a
good meal and expresses hope for
repetition of the favor.
AS we gaze, we are assured that the
inventor of Maltoid Milk Bone, the
bone shaped dog biscuit. had just such
a picture in mind when he thought 1t
out. More than this. he knew that IN
order to make it true to life he had
to make a biscuit which the dog would
enjoy as much as he did the bone. 1t
has been done. The biscuit bone is
better than the real bone because it
Is made under sanitary conditions OF
pure food material that benefit the dog
more than the real bones. often buried.
10 grow mouldy, the taste for which.
cultivated. makes 'carrion" dog,
which no modern up to date owner
wants about the place.