LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Smooth-Coated St. Bernard, Ch.  The Viking (From the painting by Lilian Cheviot.) Frontispiece

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayor’s Bulldog, Ch.  Silent Duchess

Mr. George Sinclair’s St. Bernard, Ch.  Lord Montgomery

Mrs. Vale Nicolas’s Newfoundland, Ch.  Shelton Viking

Mrs. H. Horsfall’s Great Dane, Ch.  Viola of Redgrave

Mr. R. A. Tait’s Collie, Ch.  Wishaw Leader

Bloodhound, Ch.  Chatley Beaufort.  Bred and owned by Mrs. G. A.
Oliphant, Shrewton, Wilts.

Mrs. Armstrong’s Deerhound, Ch.  Talisman

Mrs. Aitcheson’s Borzoi, Ch.  Strawberry King

Mr. H. Reginald Cooke’s Retriever, Ch.  Worsley Bess

Three generations of Mr. R. de C. Peele’s Blue Roan Cocker Spaniels,
Ch.  Ben Bowdler (Father), Ch.  Bob Bowdler (Son), and Ch.  Dixon Bowdler
(Grandson)

Fox-Terriers:  1.  Mrs. J. H. Brown’s, Ch.  Captain Double 2.  Mr. J. C. Tinne’s, Ch.  The Sylph 3.  Mr. T. J. Stephen’s Wire-Hair, Ch.  Sylvan Result

Mr. Fred. W. Breakell’s Irish Terrier, Ch.  Killarney Sport

Mrs. Spencer’s Dandie Dinmont, Ch.  Braw Lad

A Typical Airedale Head

Mr. W. L. McCandlish’s Scottish Terrier, Ems Cosmetic

Col.  Malcolm’s West Highland White Terriers Sonny and Sarah

Miss E. McCheane’s Skye Terriers, Ch.  Fairfield Diamond and Ch. 
Wolverley Chummie

Toy Dogs: 
 Miss Stevens’ Typical Japanese Puppy
 Mrs. Vale Nicolas’s Pomeranian, Ch.  The Sable Mite
 Miss M. A. Bland’s Pomeranian, Ch.  Marland King
 Lady Hulton’s Blenheim, Ch.  Joy
 The Hon. Mrs. Lytton’s King Charles, Ch.  The Seraph

Toy Dogs:  1.  Mrs. Gresham’s Pug, Ch.  Grindley King 2.  Mrs. T. Whaley’s Brussels Griffon, Glenartney Sport 3.  Pekinese, Ch.  Chu-erh of Alderbourne

CHAPTER I

GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG

There is no incongruity in the idea that in the very earliest period of man’s habitation of this world he made a friend and companion of some sort of aboriginal representative of our modern dog, and that in return for its aid in protecting him from wilder animals, and in guarding his sheep and goats, he gave it a share of his food, a corner in his dwelling, and grew to trust it and care for it.  Probably the animal was originally little else than an unusually gentle jackal, or an ailing wolf driven by its companions from the wild marauding pack to seek shelter in alien surroundings.  One can well conceive the possibility of the partnership beginning in the circumstance of some helpless whelps being brought home by the early hunters to be tended and reared by the women and children.  The present-day savage of New Guinea and mid-Africa does not, as a rule, take the trouble to tame and train an adult wild animal for his own purposes, and