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This is the first year of the KC trial to give extra CCs to breeds to help encourage more people to get out and show their dogs. Aussies have been enjoying the extra shows to attend to gain the coveted Challenge Certificates. The last show of the year will be LKA - Ladies Kennel Association. This Show has offered classes with and without CCs for many years and ‘The Aussie’ is indebted to a reader for sending through this article about an Australian visitor attending LKA in 1910. Lilian Kaye-Cook was visiDng the UK from her homeland of Australia and being an enthusiasDc dog lover, she decided to visit LKA - described by her as not just a dog show but a world famous one. Although her prime interest was to see breeds that were tradiDonally BriDsh like the Bulldog, she did decided to wander around to see which breeds were less popular. She takes up the story…’Stowed away in an unassuming corner of one of the tents, I happened on a row of some half dozen dogs; No flaunDng sign to proclaim them as any parDcular breed, but at the sight of them my heart gave a throb of joyful recogniDon. Hadn’t I, in the golden days that had passed, seen many such funny li2le, unDdy dogs with a daredevil expression, rushing about a large sheep staDon in far-away Queensland. - chivvying possums, rendering what the homebred Australian calls “a gohanner’s” life, a burden to him and yapping lusDly at slumberous alligators in the creeks. And here he was, housing it amongst the aristocrats of dogdom, whose ancestry was not wri2en in the archives of that august body known as the Kennel Club. “Good Gracious’ I exclaimed “wonders will never cease, if Australian Terriers - so called - are recognised as an independent bred - what shall we see next?” “For surely the origin of these sporty li2le dogs is to say the least of it wrapped in mystery. Yorkshire Terrier, Welsh Terriers, Dandie Dinmont Terriers and so on and so forth, have all assisted in the manufacture of this encyclopaedia of caninity. The li2le staDon terrier has lived and loved and seemeth him best, and there has been no one to say to him nay; and here he is in sober, highly respectable England, where even the table silver has a pedigree, lording it over the best. Aussies from 1910 in England From this preamble you will no doubt have come to the conclusion that it is as an ambiDous owner of an Australian Terrier that stands admiring - no - its nothing of the sort. Just amazement in the transformaDon.
The world according to Nickie Wri$en in 1911, which is about the same 5me as the archive feature on Aussies. This tells of the life of an Aussie in Australia. Many readers will note similar traits in their Aussies today. And its not a sad tale!! Many a morning had I watched a wee doggie's face pressed hard against a window pane in a house opposite my own, before I became acquainted, first with the doggie, then with the owner. Nickie was a dear, li2le Australian Terrier His great chum and playfellow was a pre2y black cat with white shirt front and white paws named Pantanoona, or Panty, for short. The two were so happy together. If Nickie went out for a walk, Panty followed. The pair looked comical tronng up the street together. Panty would run into an open drainpipe, if she scented danger of any kind. One evening she was lost, having run into a drain, and missed her way out. The next day I was told Panty was in the drain near my house, but it took two li2le boys and myself an hour to get her out. She looked, oh, so miserable. One day Pantanoona was almost killed by some strange dogs, and acer that would scarcely venture out with us any more. Poor Nickie, too, nearly lost his own life. Venturing into a garden by himself, he was set on by two big dogs,' and nearly killed before we rescued him. It was a very forlorn li2le Nickie; indeed, that tro2ed home with us that day. I always thought Nickie must have suffered with headache, for he was never saDsfied unless his head was upon a pillow, or cushion. If either were about he would sneak up and put his head on it like a human being. He hated to have a bath; and it was funny how he would hide if he were told he was to be washed, creeping under sofa or chair out of the way. If his mistress called him he lay like a mouse— not a move out of him. He used to hide under my dress if he only heard the water being put into the tub. You had only to say 'Nickie is to be washed,' and he would hide in an instant, having to be dragged unceremoniously out of his hiding place; but he looked as proud as any li2le girl or boy, with a new dress or suit on acer he had been washed and his silvery, now curly hair combed out. Nickie loved so to be taken out for a walk. If we would not take him, he would poke his funny li2le face under the window curtain, crying piteously when he saw us going out. He would be sure to have his ' revenge, too, by doing some mischief or other in our absence. Once he chewed up the window cords. Another Dme he dug holes in the garden big enough to bury himself in. And ocen and ocen he tore up whole newspapers in the yard, sca2ering the pieces far and wide, Dll the yard looked as if a paperchase had taken place in it. He acted, Indeed, like a naughty child would if lec at home alone. If I said 'Nickie, get your collar and lead,' he would scamper round to look for them, drag them from their hook on to the sofa, watching eagerly for me to put them on, a sure sign to him that he was to go with us. Boys were his great delight, and he loved to get amongst them for a romp. Poor li2le Nickie. There were no boys for you to play with in the home fate allo2ed to you. However, Nickie would play, hide and seek with Panty. She would run, and Nickie would search every cranny and nook Dll he found her, when he would drag her by her tail, poor Panty bearing this rather rough treatment very good-humouredly, not even giving him a scratch, as most cats would. Nickie and Panty shared the same rug, looking very cosy curled together on a cold night. Panty liked Nickie's warm shaggy coat, and Nickie liked, Panty for company, being very forlorn if by any chance Panty was locked out. I only hope they will never be parted, for they would miss each other dreadfully if they were. I think animals, like li2le folks, are meant to be very happy and contented together.
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