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...each year. Largest-even larger than England's famed Cruft's-is the open-air Morris & Essex show, staged each spring on the New Jersey estate of Mrs. M. Hartley Dodge. But the oldest and the most important is the midwinter West minster Kennel Club show, whose rosettes for 64 years have been tantamount to national championships...
...owner could take a vicarious pride in Champion My Own Brucie, only dog to win both the Morris & Essex and Westminster in one year. For the lopeared, silky cocker spaniel is the most popular dog in the U. S. today. Among the 108 breeds registered with the American Kennel Club, cocker spaniels (18,500) far outnumber all others. Smallest (18 to 24 Ibs.) and merriest of the sporting spaniel family, whose early members were used for hunting in Spain as far back as 1386, the cocker has become America's sweetheart because it is both...
...developing the American cocker (the English cocker is a slightly different type) to its present state of near-perfection is My Own Brucie's owner, 52-year-old Herman Mellenthin. A lover of cocker spaniels since 1895, when they were larger and lazier. Breeder Mellenthin established a kennel in Milwaukee 33 years ago, moved it to Poughkeepsie five years later...
...TIME, Feb. 27 you have an article on the dog show of the Westminster Kennel Club and under the picture of the best dog the cap tion, "Mr. Thomas couldn't touch the devil." In fairness to the breed of Doberman Pinschers . . . I would like to state a few reasons why Mr. Thomas couldn't touch Ferry...
Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...