Cairn Terrier Is Latest Addition To Royal Pets

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 591, 24 July 1933, Page 2

Cairn Terrier Is Latest Addition To Royal Pets

1 1 - DOGS POPULAR AT BUCKINGHAM IALACE i

ANBW dog, Bob, has establishedi himself aa the companion olKlng George. Bob, a Cairp. terrier, replaces Snip, whosg death was keenly felt by the royal househoid and led to the report that the King would never have another dog. King George refused to consider a new companion until the Duke oi, Gloucester, his third son, offered hlm

the Cairn puppy. Bob was put on trial and soon demonsti'ated that he was a fit dog for royal favour. Every morning, when the weather permits, Bob accompanies King George on a stroll through the gardens of Buckingham Palace. He brings the King his morning paper, as Snip used to do, and vies with Charlotle, the famous parrot, fior Grst place in the King's favour. Cairn terriers appear to be popu-

lar with the Britiah soyat fatpily. f^ha ; Priace of ws&w has taire6 of them — , Oora, Hamish and Jphn. His food- ! noss for thego dogs was recently des- ' cribed hy Ward Binks, a painter of dogs, who not long ago was qqjumissioned by the Pnrnce to make portraits of his peis. "No matter how tired tho Prtace . may be when he retuaifi from a public funcuon," Mr Binks aaid, his j three Calras thi&ka he must want a game and thoy usually persuade him to have oue, "They have the run of St. Jamas's Palace, state rposns and all. One • day wh©n I was painting Hamish there, Cora hna John were at as | wludow, looking with bored expres^ silon at the etream of tyaffic. Suddenly they pxickpd up their ears and rushed to the door. taita vragging fur» , iously, Hamish stopped 'posing' and j joined them. n'The Prin oe'e car had oom©,' a servant explalneth 'Tbose dogs disn tinguish tne souhd of it from aR, the others in the street— just the sound of the car, not of the hora.1 " Of his Uiree Gairns, Cora, the eldest, is the Prince's favourite. She sleeps on a corner of his bed. Formerly it waa a simple matter for the lively little animal to jump up on the bed, but of late she has found it difficult. Now a flight of little wooden steps stands beside the bed go that she may "walk upstairs" to sleep. Cora also accompanies the Pjfinoe on his airplane flights; at such timea she wears a small pair o£ goggles specially made for her. Probahly flrst place In the lohg line of British royal dog-fanciors he* longs to Queen Yictoria, At hey death she owned 83 dogs Oihd her favourite black Pom was lying asleep on bed when ahe died. Together with the PfiaoS Consovh feho greatta 4?k couraged the breeding of pQdisreed dogs.