The Japanese Chin - A Complete Anthology of the Dog

By Read Books Ltd.

The Japanese Chin - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare and much sought-after works, all of them written by renowned breed experts of their day. These books are treasure troves of information about the breed - The physical points, temperaments, and special abilities are given; celebrated dogs are discussed and pictured; and the history of the breed and pedigrees of famous champions are also provided. The contents were well illustrated with numerous photographs of leading and famous dogs of that era and these are all reproduced to the highest quality. Books used include: My Dog And I by H. W. Huntington (1897), The Kennel Encyclopaedia by J. Sidney Turner (1908), About Our Dogs by A. Croxton Smith (1931) and many others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Jan 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781447483403

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W. J. Burkhardt’s, 1301 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y. JINGO.

THE SPANIEL (JAPANESE).

ORIGIN.—A native of Japan, where it is also called the sleeve-dog, on account of being carried there by the swells of that country.

USES.—Simply a pet dog, and extremely intelligent.

HEAD AND NECK.—Head large, broad; slightly rounded skull; neck short, and moderately thick. Eyes large, dark, lustrous, rather prominent, wide apart. Muzzle strong, wide, very short from stop to nose; jaws upturned; teeth not to be shown; nose very short, the end wide with open nostrils, and same color as markings. Ears small, V-shaped; well feathered, set high, and wide apart; carried forward.

BODY.—Compact, squarely built, cobby, the body and legs forming a square.

LEGS AND FEET.—Bones of legs small, slender, well feathered. Feet small, cat-like; the feather increasing the length, never the width.

TAIL.—Carried over back in tight curl; profusely feathered.

COAT.—Profuse, long, straight, rather silky, free from wave, not too flat.

COLOR.—Black, red, or white; parti-colors with white ground preferred. Blenheim markings are most showy. In variation of markings the colors must remain distinct.

WEIGHT.—Four to nine pounds; the smaller, the better.

ELITE KENNELS,

W. J. BURKART, 1301 Broadway, Brooklyn, N. Y.

JAPANESE        

    SPANIELS.

AT STUD, JINGO.

FIRST PRIZE WINNER, New York, 1896. Longest Coated Japanese Spaniel in America; weight 4 pounds. Fee, $25. Superior Dogs and Puppies for sale at all times.

THE JAPANESE SPANIEL.

IN some quarters an impression prevails that the Japanese spaniel is quite a modern introduction. This is, however, not so; and at one of our very earliest dog shows—that held in the Holborn Horse Repository in 1862—a class was provided for Japanese, which at that time were oftener called pugs than spaniels. There were then nine entries, and Mr. C. Keller, Camberwell, won first prize with a black and white dog called Caro. Thus Japanese spaniels have been in private hands in this country for a great many years, amongst others Miss Brown, of the Red House, Bayswater, having had specimens since 1870 or earlier. These were brought from time to time from China, where they are purchased from the attendants and others connected with the temples and religious places in the country.

The Japanese themselves claim great antiquity for these little dogs, going so far as to be rivals with the Maltese in that respect, and declaring that our own toy spaniels were originally produced from the Japanese. But, as I have had to say repeatedly, the origins of the many varieties of the canine race cannot be traced. We have the dogs and so should be contented.

The little creatures to which this chapter is devoted are now called and identified as Japanese spaniels because they are supposed to have originally been brought from Japan. From what I have been told, and from what I have read, I believe them to be equally indigenous to the northern and other parts of China. In the Field over twenty years ago there was an excellent article on the dogs of China, in which the writer states that there is the Pekin pug, remarkable for its diminutive size, sometimes so small as to be carried in the sleeves of a Chinese coat. Hence they are called sleeve dogs. Some resemble the old-fashioned short-bow-legged pugs, which may have been originally introduced into Europe from China by the Portuguese, and hence called Portuguese or Spanish pugs. These dogs are generally smooth skinned. There are other kinds, resembling Scotch Skye terriers, which might, in some exaggerated instances, be considered equally handsome in their extreme ugliness, in having their faces concealed by long hair, and a line or division running along the back, the hair on each side reaching to the ground. All these kinds are remarkable for the shortness of their nose, giving rise to the supposition that it was the result of mechanical interference with the proper growth of the head, as in the case of the artificially produced distortion of the feet of the Chinese women; but such is not the case, as all who have seen the little puppies of the species can testify. . . . These small dogs originally derived from Corea, are continually imported from that country into China, where, especially in the north, they are much valued, and are to be found in the houses of the wealthy.

The above, as being written by an authority on Chinese dogs, I think worth reproducing, but whether modern admirers of the Japanese dogs will see much resemblance to their favourites in the dogs described, is a matter for them to determine. In 1870 a black and white Japanese