Bulldogs and Bulldog Breeding (A Vintage Dog Books Breed Classic)

H. St. John Cooper

• Publisher: Vintage Dog Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473346864
• Print ISBN:
  9781905124381
  9781905124343
• Subtopic: Zoology

Everything an Edwardian fancier needed to know about the national dog - how to buy one, breed one, feed one, and avoid being swindled over one.

H. St. John Cooper was a popular novelist and a respected show breeder, and Bulldogs and Bulldog Breeding, first published in 1905, is the working handbook he wrote out of that double life. It opens, characteristically, with market value, sale and exchange advertisements, and how to protect yourself from fraud in the canine press - then moves on to the standard as the Bulldog Club of England laid it down, the defects, the Dudley noses and the button ears, the brood bitch and the stud dog, whelping, feeding, kennelling and the diseases of the day.

Over 60 photographs of the champions of the period are reproduced from the original edition, along with the period advertisements for stud dogs and dog food that give the book its particular flavour.

This edition features:

• The complete 1905 text, from buying a puppy to running a kennel
• Over 60 photographs of the great winners of the Edwardian ring
• The standard, the defects and the points as the Bulldog Club of England set them out
• Original period advertisements for stud dogs and dog food, reproduced from the first edition

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• I. Buying a Bulldog—The Market Value of Bulldogs—Sale and Exchange Advertisements—Protection from Fraud—The Canine Press
• II. The Bulldog Clubs of England—A Description of the Bulldog—Defects—Dudley Noses—Button Ears—Expression
• III. The Brood Bitch—Show Bitches and Brood Bitches—Suitable Mating—The Age At Which to Breed—Pedigree—The Stud Dog
• IV. Whelping—Personal Attendance—The Need for a Foster-Mother—Exchanging Puppies—Food and Exercise for the Suckling Bitch
• V. Feeding—Exercising—Teaching Puppies to Exercise—The Whip
• VI. Kenneling and Disinfecting
• VII. Some Diseases of Dogs
• VIII. Some Prominent Dogs of the Day
• IX. Conclusion