A man is taken to hospital after rescuing his dog from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, June 24, 1951.
From Working Terriers at the Tar Pit:
As always, the threat to working dogs is the tar pit of the Kennel Club from which no breed has ever emerged intact and still working.
Tar pits look benign -- cool water tends to pool on top -- but nothing has ever come out of them but bones.
In the case of the Kennel Club, what has emerged, time and time again, are exaggerated dogs devoid of working instinct, nose, and common sense, with coats inappropriate for the job, and skeletal structures that are often inadequate for a day in the field.
No one who courses dogs looks to a Kennel Club dog to do the job, and the same is true for working sled dogs, herding dogs, cart dogs, pointers, setters, or retrievers.
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