1896 PRINT BY MAUD EARL

"Hallelujah Saint Bernards" - Where
Saints Are Still Bred With The
Original 
1886 Swiss Standard In Mind

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The Original 1886 Swiss Standard

COPIED FROM THE 1888 BOOK BY HUGH DALZIEL, "THE SAINT BERNARD, IT'S HISTORY, POINTS, BREEDING, AND REARING"

 

 

 

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IN 1887 THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND ADOPTED A STANDARD MUCH INFLUENCED BY THE EARLIER SWISS STANDARD BUT DIFFERING A LITTLE IN SOME POINTS, PARTICULARLY WITH REGARD TO THE ROUGH COAT SAINTS.

HOWEVER, BOTH  THE 1886 SWISS AND THE 1887 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD WERE IDENTICAL WITH REGARD TO THE LIP STRUCTURE AND THUS THE ISSUE OF A DRY MOUTH.

THE SAINT BERNARD CLUB IN AMERICA USED AND SOMEWHAT  LOOSELY INTERPRETED THE 1887 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNTIL 1955. IN 1955 THEY PUBLISHED A NEW STANDARD. THIS NEW STANDARD STATED "THE FLEWS OF THE LOWER JAW MUST NOT BE DEEPLY PENDANT." THIS MERELY REFLECTED WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE DOG'S MOUTH SINCE 1887 WITH THE VAST MAJORITY OF SAINTS IN 1955 HAVING A STRONGLY DROOPING LOWER LIP THAT CAUSED THEM TO DROOL INCESSANTLY. SOME PEOPLE TODAY EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO INSIST THAT A SAINT BERNARD THAT DOESN'T DROOL IS NOT TRULY A SAINT!!

THE EXACT OPPOSITE WOULD BE FAR NEARER TO THE TRUTH. JUST LOOK AT THE HOSPICE DOGS.  AND OTHER EARLY EXAMPLES SUCH PLINLIMMON, THISBE, LEILA, WHITE STAR GIRL, MAUD EARL'S SAINT BERNARD PAINTING FROM 1896, AND MANY OTHER EARLY PHOTOS AND PRINTS.

MUCH OF THE PROBLEM LIKELY STEMS FROM THE MULTITUDE OF EARLY ENGLISH IMPORTS. IN THE JULY 1910 ISSUE OF "COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA" IT IS NOTED ON PAGE 358 IN THE FIRST COLUMN: "NO EXACT SCALE OF POINTS HAS BEEN ACCEPTED BUT THE IDEAS OF THE ENGLISH SAINT BERNARD CLUB HAVE BEEN PERHAPS MORE SATISFACTORY----- "MUZZLE SQUARE, OF MEDIUM LENGTH, LIPS SOMEWHAT PENDULOUS,-------"

PEOPLE WHO ALREADY OWNED DOGS WITH PENDULOUS LIPS EITHER ACTUALLY PREFERRED THIS FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON OR ACCEPTED IT AS NORMAL OR PERHAPS AS AN UNAVOIDABLE FEATURE.

DROOLING IS VERY UNATTRACTIVE TO MOST PEOPLE WHO WANT COMPANION  DOGS TODAY AND CERTAINLY: IT IS NOT AN INNATE FEATURE OF THE SAINT BERNARD DOG.

THE BREED HAS ACQUIRED  MANY OTHER FAULTS SINCE THE DAYS OF HEINRICH SCHUMACHER AND THE ORIGINAL HOSPICE DOGS AS WAS  ACKNOWLEDGED AS EARLY AS 1927 BY ROBERT LEIGHTON IN HIS  ENGLISH BOOK, "THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE DOG".

ON PAGE 76 OF THAT BOOK LEIGHTON WRITES: "----THEY HAVE BEEN INJURED IN CONSTITUTION, AND IN MANY CASES CONVERTED INTO CRIPPLES BEHIND. THE PRIZEWINNING ROUGH-COATED ST. BERNARD, AS HE IS SEEN TODAY, IS A PURELY MANUFACTURED ANIMAL, HANDSOME IN APPEARANCE CERTAINLY, BUT SO CUMBERSOME THAT HE IS SCARCELY ABLE TO RAISE A TROT, LET ALONE DO ANY TRACKING IN THE SNOW."

NOTE: ALL MATERIALS QUOTED ABOVE ARE AVAILABLE IN OUR ARCHIVE ON THIS WEB SITE

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THE 1887 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD IF REPRODUCED BELOW

 

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