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...Even Close. Last week, as 2,569 dogs of 116 varieties descended on Manhattan's Madison Square Garden in a Babel of yips, yaps and woofs (plus a screech or two from the barkless Basenji), poodles again rated as the top contenders for Westminster's top award. The dogs were benched beneath the Garden's main floor, surrounded by dog manicurists and hairdressers, fussing owners, and concessionaires who peddled everything from breath sweeteners and "No-Mate Tablets'' to life-size dog portraits ($35 and up). On the main floor, perfumed, powdered and pomaded pooches paraded...
...exception. For generations they have tracked game for chiefs in the Belgian Congo, emitting only an occasional soft "groo," plaintively yodeling during the mating season, but never barking. Last week, however, in London's Trinity Hall, at the annual show of the British Basenji Club, a barkless Basenji barked. It was the end of 6,000 years of canine taciturnity. "My breath simply went," gasped Acting Club Secretary Veronica Tudor Williams. "Quite a bombshell," muttered the permanent secretary...
This week B. Hamilton Rogers, vice president of an organization called Dogs Inc., arrived in the U. S. with two barkless, but playful Basenji puppies. He in tends to show them and breed them, hopes to introduce the Basenji to recognized aristocracy of pedigreed dogs...
...Sydney, Australia, where hospital inmates were kept awake at night by barking dogs, the dogs were silenced by severing their vocal chords. One E. G. Pryce, returning from Russia, declared that Soviet scientists have bred a barkless dog by crossing a Siberian wolfhound with an Australian dingo...
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