The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01
DOG BREEDER TAKES
ISSUEON SEALYHAM
English Judge Says the Breed
Should Have Crooked Legs
to Go to Earth.
THIS THEORY DISPUTED
Man Who Knows Breed Well In
sists They Should Go
With Hound Pack.
THIS THEORY DISPUTED

Perhaps the biggest sensation In the
Judging at tho Westminster show was
caused by the upsettins OF what has been
recognized as the standard Of sealyham ter
riers by w. T.. McCandiish, who came from
England 10 Judge this breed and other
breeds Of terriers. The Judge passed over
such well known champions az Mr..
Holmes willetts's Locust Lone star. best
in the Boston show. Mra Tyler Morses
champion The Narmlnt reserve at Boston.
and clifford Il. Harmon's Two Centurion.
recently imported from England with
Nc reputation.
Instead of recognizing the merits OF the
Sefaieht fronted terrier the Judge favored
Arch Druid a dog with crooked front.
heavy shoulders and weak pasterns. and
tbs champions named above failed to get
a card In tho open class. Tho cxplana:io
was that the Sealyhnm, being a dog that
went TO ground. should have bent pasterns
einilar TO the dachshund. but Freeman
Lloyd, q well known Judge Of dogs. who
vas brought up among this breed, takes
exception TO this view IN tho following
article:
Tho straighter you can get them the
better. Short legged dogs are generally
more or less crooked on their legs but the
W0ll 6uNltpu pfteCtT Will hlW9Sb btflNt
Tor q straight foreles. They have bred
Shs crooked legs out Of scottish terriers,
and eventually they viii accomplish the
eAme IN Sealyham terriers. believe I am
the only writer who hunted with Capt.
Ddwardes Of Sealyham. Tho Sealyham
terrier IL q dog that always has run with
fox as we'll AZ with other hounds No
crooked legged terrier can live with any
decent fox hounds in a run. and especially
10 that the case IN Pembrokeshire--my
homo and where Sealyham IL All about
that part OF North Pembrokeshire the
bsniss are exceptionally big. and II takes
a stout heart . big ieapins horse and
good hound 70 negotiate those hedsea- II
Is the sort OF country that helps q steeple-
GAaser--horse and man--to win q grand
national.
You cannot tell me that . crooked
legged terrier could live with . straight
legged terrier In such country. A
sound dog can always beat a cripple, and
q bad fronted dog II virtually cripple.
II can be pretty we'll imagined that the
Sealyham terrier IL q valuable asset when
the cottager turns his pigsty into ken
mel. And out Of those styes at Hook
have come some OF the leading champion
dogs Of to-day. They are or have been
the property Of Fred W. Lewis Of Haver-
ford west
A handy legged dog cannot travel and
II 10 IaSt Work IOr II tefrler WIN nOunus
N any country. and they need to b. ex-
tremely active In the premier county Of
Wales, where tits hunting all the time and
where even II was thought no great sin
for Capt owen Tucker Edwartles to take
his Sealyham terriers to church With him
every Sunday morning.
] I'm convinced that the original 6eGly-
ham terriers originally came from Fan
dess--it may be from Normandy. There
- evidence enough In the tapestries mt
tho Victoria and Albert Museum, South
Remington. London. that a long bodied
short leggel. white colored. strong Jowied,
heavy cared terrier was a great favorite
among the hunting men Of Flanders early
In the fifteenth century. The tapestries
are all over hunting subjects. and this
white terrier figures IN the centre of ono
Of these beautiful examples loaned by the
Duke and Duchess % DevOnshire.
A Sealyharn terrier should be active
Q terrier able 20 ga,iop with hounds and
70 to earth when they have put their
fox there. Some people have been In
clined TO laugh at Sealyham terriers. They
were the bed rock from which the mod
ssn wire haired fox terrier came.