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GREAT BRITAIN, per head of population, contains more dogs in private ownership than any other country in the world. Dog-breeding in Britain is a big industry, dog-showing a bigger, dog-owning a passion. Yet there is a profound ignorance about dogs, about everything to do with dogs, in Britain. Too many people own dogs because it is ‘the right thing’ to do, and not because they either love them or understand them : too many people breed freaks because it pays to do so. It is, in fact, not far from the truth to say that we are a nation of dog-owners and not, as we like to make out, a nation of dog-lovers.
Dogs in Britain
A Description of all Native Breeds and most Foreign Breeds in Britain. By Clifford L. B. Hubbard. Pp. xii + 471 + 8 plates. (London : Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1948.) 21s. net.
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VESEY-FITZGERALD, B. Dogs in Britain. Nature 162, 553 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162553a0
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