The Bull Terrier - A Comprehensive Treatise On The History, Management, Breeding, Training, Care, Showing And Judging

E. S. Montgomery

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• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 16 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528763271
• Langue: English

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THE BULL TERRIER
A Comprehensive Treatise on the History, Management, Breeding, Training, Care, Showing and Judging
BY
E. S. MONTGOMERY
A.B., B.S., M.S., M.D.

ILLUSTRATED
1946
From an oil painting by Edwin Megargee
Champion Heir Apparent to Monty-Ayr owned by Mrs. E. S. Montgomery.
Dedication
When the omnipotent Creator of the universe first fashioned this world and cast it into space; when He chiseled the lofty mountain peak from the bosom of Nature and sent the green-blue stream laughing and dancing from its side; when He made the moon and the stars to shine, lighting the world by night; when He caused the sun to shine by day, warming the very body of the earth and clothed all Nature in a garment of green, He saw there was something lacking. He took his chisel and cut a figure of a dog from a rude block of white granite - then, taking a suggestion from the beauty of the snow, the grace of the fawn, the symmetry of the clouds, and the very bounty of Nature, He combined them all into one and made a Bull Terrier - companion to man .
M RS . E. S. M ONTGOMERY
CONTENTS
F OREWORD
P REFACE
PART I
M AN AND H IS D OG
PART II
T HE B ULL AND T ERRIER B REED T HROUGH THE Y EARS
The Early Foundation of the Bull and Terrier Breed . The Bull and Terrier-like Bulldog . The Fighting Terrier . The Blue Paul . The Staffordshire Terrier . The Early English Bull Terrier . The Miniature Bull Terrier . The Colored Bull Terrier .
PART III
T HE B ULL T ERRIER T ODAY
His Beginning . His External Characteristics . His Character and Personality. His Development and Heredity . His Breeding and Care . His Conditioning and Training for Show Ring and Field .
PART IV
T HE B ULL T ERRIER ON E XHIBITION
The Contribution of James Hinks . Kennel Clubs and Their Work in England and America . Breeding Suggestions and Requirements . Downface, by Perry M. Chadwick . Dog Shows-Their Purposes and Value . How to Show Your Bull Terrier . Bull Terrier Kennels, Their Personalities in Dogs and Owners . The Private Life of the Bull Terrier and his Owners . In Reflection . Fanciers Opinions and Views . The Bull Terrier in South America .
B ULL T ERRIER P ROSE AND P OESY
S TANDARDS OF P ERFECTION FOR THE B ULL T ERRIER IN A MERICA AND E NGLAND
C HALLNGE C ERTIFICATE W INNERS , 1922 TO D ATE
R EGENT T ROPHY W INNERS
B IBLIOGRAPHY
N AME I NDEX
S UBJECT I NDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS
Champion Heir Apparent to Monty-Ayr (from an Oil Painting by Edwin Megargee) .
Champion Rhapsody in White
Champion Ruffian Our Teenie
Champion Silver Blaze
Charles G. and Fred Hopton, with Two Bulldogs and a White Bull Terrier in the Year 1890
Champion Bloomsbury King
Champion Brendon Blue Stocking
Miniature Forecast of Monty-Ayr
Buxton Blackout
Welterweight Corinthian
English Champion Lady Winifred
English Champion Bocko s Brock, Wickselme Brock s Double, and Wickselme Wallflower
Blue Cross Boy Going Best of Breed at the Big-Top Show Held in Birmingham, July, 1944
Brendan Toreador
Brendon Brigantine
Champion Beltona Brindigal
Anatomical Sketch of a Bull Terrier
Champion Coolyn Dixie Clipper
English and American Champion Raydium Brigadier of Coolyn Hill
Champion Coolyn North Wind
Three Monty-Ayr Puppies
Champion White Queen of Monty-Ayr
Betsy Ross of Coolyn Hill, with Daughters
Woodcote Wonder and Woodcote Pride
Champion Peeble Again
The Silver Litter
English Champion Black Coffee
English Champion Isthmian Centre Forward
Champion Raydium Repulse
Champion Gallalaw Benefactor
Champion Raydium Avenger of Westmeath
Champion Slam of Blighty
Lord Gladiator
English Champion Gardenia
Champion Faultless of Blighty with Dolores Del Rio
William Faversham, Noted English and American Actor with Don Balsamo
William Faversham with English and American Champion Shure Thing
Champion Haymarket Faultless
English and American Champion Allfire Alive
English and American Champion Shure Thing
Canadian and American Champion Coolridge Lilywhite
Champion Buccaneer
Champion Gardenia Tony
English and American Champion Faultless of Blighty
Champion Furore Ferment
Canadian and American Champion Haymarket Dawn
Champion Ferdinand of Ormandy and Champion Another Queen of Brum
English and American Champion Kowhai Lady
Champion Brendon Boomerang
Champion Cylva Becky Sharpe
Champion Pep s Bad Boy of Nelloyd and Champion Glory of Patch of Nelloyd
English Champions Brendon Barbed Wire and Brendon Gold Standard
English Champion Rhoma
English Champion White Rose Girl
English Champion Gardenia Guardsman
English Champion Bricktops Ace of Aces
Caradoc
Oldlane Iceberg
Oldlane White Hope
Isthmian Home Guard
English Champion Velhurst Vindicator
Champion the Mayor of Little Willows, Shown with Cary Grant
Rosanne Bennett with Champion Brendon Boomerang and Champion Coolyn Chatterbox
King s Sassy Sue
Champion Duncan Willie of Camaloch
Champion Charlwood Dream Girl and Champion Cappy Ricks II
Blodwen of Voewood
Ishmian Good Shot
Willie, the Late General George S. Patton s Bullterrier
Champion Ormandy s Mr. McGuffin and Ormandy s Mr. McRumpus
Piccadilly Red Diploma
The Regent Trophy
Figures 1-3
Figures 4-5
Figures 6-7
Figures 8-9
FOREWORD
I HAVE JUST finished reading the final proof of Dr. Montgomery s new book on the Bull Terrier and find it excellent reading. Little did I think when I first met the author at a Westminster Kennel Club show some years ago that twenty years later, he would produce such a monumental work on the Bull Terrier. At our first meeting, Dr. Montgomery, then only a college student, had just finished showing a homebred Pointer to best of breed, and he cornered me at the Bull Terrier benches and poured questions at me about Faultless and his ability as a sire on outcross bitches and on inbred bitches, his capability and stamina in field, and so many others that I was literally snowed under.
In his book, the author has compiled a wealth of material that most of us old uns know nothing about. The greater portion of bullbaiting, dog fighting and early attempts at breeding a fighting terrier are most interesting and informative reading. The author has presented the history of the Bull Terrier in sequence from its very earliest beginnings until the period of World War II. In so doing, he has been both interesting and enlightening and I am sure that his book will be accepted as an authoritative treatise on the Bull Terrier.
Of the Bull Terrier, little can be said that is not disclosed in this book and I can only add that the Bull Terrier is all that Dr. Montgomery has claimed for it. The Bull Terrier s devotion, love and loyalty are beyond the understanding of most of us. His gaiety, gentleness, and companionable qualities are extraordinary. He offers the best to his owner and in return deserves love and affection.
When a man who has the knowledge of animals, especially dogs, and the experience with Bull Terriers, and the trained scientific mind of a diagnostician puts his store of information into words to give to those who want a better understanding of the Bull Terrier, the result is a source of enlightenment and pleasure to all and that is exactly what Dr. Montgomery has produced in his book on the Bull Terrier.
It is good that we emeritus breeders can pass the reins to such an energetic and enthusiastic Bull Terrier breeder, exhibitor, judge, and now author, as Dr. Montgomery.
R. H. E LLIOTT
Ottawa, Ontario ,
Canada .
PREFACE
D OGS -especially Bull Terriers-are among the most interesting things in the world! That, at least, is the conviction that has directed the twenty years of Bull Terrier breeding and exhibiting that help make up this volume.
Before explaining my reasons for writing this book, let me first apologize for adding my meager volume to the contributions and far more learned compilations which have been edited by Adair Dighton, T. W. Hogarth and others.
In a sense this volume is the outgrowth of personal observations and, taken with an understanding of Bull Terrier lore, provides an intimate commentary on the story of the bull and terrier breed. It is a casebook of the mainsprings of Bull Terrier history which I hope may prove interesting and entertaining to the novice and veteran breeder alike. That, at any rate, has been my aim.
Let me be even more personal; with an abiding interest in the history of the Bull Terrier and the multifarious forces which have helped and hindered the breed, it is only natural that my writing should give dominant attention to the dogs of modern times and the harvest of my own experience.
The writer has aimed to give in a popular manner, a complete survey of the Bull Terriers of the world, especially of England, Canada and America, because it is with these dogs that he is most thoroughly acquainted. While the manner aims to be popular, and while the author hopes to make the book interesting reading, it is his ambition to be everywhere in accord with the latest show data, breeding data, and scientific study of the breed of Bull Terriers. He believes that the beginner, the novice, and even the for specials only class of breeders and exhibitors may find scattered through this volume, new information and new data drawn from the author s long and syst