How to breed, rear and win with the most fiercely contested toy breed of the 1920s.
Minna Loftus Allen wrote Show Pekingese in 1923 for exhibitors rather than pet owners, and it shows on every page. Origin and history come first, then the genealogy of the breed, the clubs and their standards of points, the brood bitch and the stud dog, the rearing and feeding of puppies with notes on kennelling, the common ailments, and the whole business of preparing a dog for exhibition.
The breed had come to Britain from the imperial palaces of China and had become, by the 1920s, the most competitive class in the toy ring. This is the handbook of that competition, written from inside it.
This edition features:
- The complete 1923 handbook for the exhibitor, from genealogy to the show bench
- Clubs, standards of points, the brood bitch, the stud dog and the rearing of puppies
- Common ailments and their treatment, as understood in the 1920s
- Illustrated with photographs of the winning dogs of the period