15 JANUARY 1927, Page 3

Fourteen cases have been recorded in the last three months

of persons being bitten by Alsatian wolf-dogs. Experts have said that these impressive looking animals are partly descended from wolves. If that is true, an occasional throw-back, in a moment of excitement, to wolfish habits is not to be wondered at. But it is only too easy to give a dog a bad name. We should like to know more about the exact origin of the Alsatians. Their name in itself proves nothing, for a fox-terrier is not descended from a fox, nor a sheep-dog from a sheep.

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