THE EXPORT OF DOGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 816, 9 November 1929, Page 13

THE EXPORT OF DOGS

An ex-Cabinet Minister told me the other day that he attached a good deal of importance to the export trade in dogs (says an English writer.) I have no means of computing the value of the dogs sold annually to the United States, India, and other countries overseas, but it must amount to a great deal. Foreign buyers, as a rule, do not care to incur the cost of freightage for second-class stock- They want the best only, and a really first-class dog is worth anything from £SOO to £I,OOO. Home make more than the higner figure. I see’that in August the Kennel Club issued 182 export certificates for dogs going to the United States alone. Once, quite unwittingly. I was the means of getting an excellent bargain for a South African' farmei. who had asked me to send him a couple-and-a-half of foxhounds for killing Jackals. As masters do not care to make money out of their walkers, draft hounds may be had cheaply! The farmer met them at Port Elizabeth, and on their wav up country one of the bitches presented him with nine whelps, all of which lived. Had this domestic incident occurred on board ship he would have had to pay several pounds for each puppy.