THE BOOK OF THE SCOTTISH TERRIER
FAYETTE C. EWING, M.D.
Co-Founder of the Scottish Terrier Club of America
NOSEGAY KENNELS
QUOTES FROM HIS
BOOK
"THERE
WAS NEVER A
GOOD SCOTTIE WITH A BAD COLOR"
(OLD AXIOM)
EXPOSING FALLACIES ABOUT BLACK
SCOTTIES
There are
few all black...they are usually sprinkled with gray
hairs which increase with age and in time their faces may grow
very grey, with monkey-like suggestion.
Black is an unnatural color;
the breed went brindle from environment, and work close to
earth, as do other animals and birds.
The makers of the Standard, who values the working dog,
set black next to last, the
dark brindles being choice.
Inbreeding blacks produces
slaty-blues, rusty black or
brown
patches under neck, breast, and tail.
Black coats are usually softer than brindles,
frequently curl, and are often associated with lack of undercoat,
Having no undercoat should disqualify a Scottie in the
show ring and the curling coat is specifically mentioned
by the Standard to condemn.
This is not to ostracize black, only to emphasize that it
has no especial value in estimating quality,
(the Standard rating being only 2 1/2 points in 100)
and is likely to have inherent defecys.
NOSEGAY
KENNELS
has black and
brindle studs, also black bitches.
THE SCOTTIE PUPPY
The world is
large, and he is very small;
Yet in him dwells no awe or fear at all.
On the high road, where flash the motors dread,
He squats, to scratch his foolish little head.
Nor, though he deprecates with tail and grin,
Feels gratitude to you who risked your skin.
But lurches, with gay and aimless sprawl,
Betwixt the stranger's legs and makes him fall.
Chastised, he stoops your noble boots to lick,
And learns that blacking, through full sweet, makes sick.
Cramful of faults, a blunt-nosed rogue and thief,
He steels your heart as surely as your beef.
And, should the fates untimely snip his thread,
You'll wish they'd severed many a man's instead.
-ELLA D. FARRAR
Hemel Hempstead, England
American Kennel Club
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