In this video from 1939, you can see that Fox Terriers have already been "improved" to the point they are mostly hair dresser dogs, too big for a hole, with no stop at all to the head, and every bit of space for brain entirely gone. As for the Dandie Dinmont, it did not stay popular long!
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
The Kennel Club Races Towards Deformity, 1939
In this video from 1939, you can see that Fox Terriers have already been "improved" to the point they are mostly hair dresser dogs, too big for a hole, with no stop at all to the head, and every bit of space for brain entirely gone. As for the Dandie Dinmont, it did not stay popular long!
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As ever, you open my appreciation of the loss of "good" dogs. I have two German Shepherds with old style conformation and am sickened by those cow hocked chimeras you have shown.
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