Bedlington Terriers

     We will start our Bedlington column with that Town’s salutation: “Wat-cheer-mah,” Who’r ya gan on? “Champion” is the correct reply with the record of 16 of our lovely breed registered for the month of July. This is more that has even been registered in any one month, in fact more than in the 12 months of some of the years that have passed since the first Bedlington was registered with the AKC in the early part of 1886.

     The color was given as dark-blue the name Ananian by Quayside Lad ex Jean, was owned by W.S. Jackson of Toronto, Canada, and its breeder was J. Hall, England.

While on the subject of registrations, let me ask you owners of Bedlingtons, do you as promoters of the breed, urge each person to whom you sell, to register the dog?

     I make it a point to do this, and even attempt to get people who have had dogs a number of years to see the advisability of registrations; and I have taken the time and assumed the trouble involved to register foreign dogs for people who had difficulty with the procedure.

     In this way we can all help our breed attain a wider publicity; and all the breed needs is a more widespread knowledge of it, to make it one of the most popular.

Dr. E.A. Noble is to be congratulated on his able and timely article in the June issue of the GAZETTE, which shows a careful research into the history of the breed.

     Our President, Sanford H.E. Freund, has been trying to make America Bedlington conscious by consistent exhibiting at most of the outdoor shows in the East for more than a year past, and has now offered the first special for Bedlingtons. Wishing to encourage breeding, the special is for “bred by exhibitor” dogs and bitches.

     From our old friend and booster, Dr. McAnulty, comes the information that Governor Earle of Pennsylvania is more than passively interested in this long neglected breed, and hopes to own a really fine specimen of the dog that has the “Head of a Lamb, but the Heart of a Lion.”

     It was very gratifying to see ten Bedlingtons at the first Staten Island show. However, we should strive to put more bitches before the judges. All you owners come forward with your show prospects. Now that we are full fledged members of the AKC let us work together for the good of the breed.

     Please let me have news of interest to our breed and so keep the ball rolling. Do not let us die where we are born. Send all replies to this S.O.S. to your Bedlington correspondent – Mrs. Anthony Neary, 36-05 33^rd Street, Astoria, Long Island, NY.