"Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History"
The Phu-Quoc Dog
page 414-415
Written in 1902
Published by Hutchinson & Co, London
"The Phu-Quoc Dog,
"Through the kindness of the Marquis de Barthelémy and Mr. H. C. Brooke we are enabled to give portraits and a description of a breed of dog which is of great rarity and very little known, and of which, we believe no living specimen has ever entered England.
"This is the Phu-Quoc Dog, which derives its name from the Island of Phu-Quoc (Cochin China), where the Marquis holds a concession from the French Government. Since the French conquest the Phu-Quoc has become very rare in his native land; and despite the extraordinary facilities enjoyed by the Marquis de Barthelémy, it is with great difficulty he has been able to procure his specimens of the pure breed.
"He considers that there exist in all Europe but three Phu-Quoc dogs – Can Lé and Pek-Te II., mother and son, the subjects of our illustration, and a dog now at the Paris Jardin d'Acclimatation, with whom it is hoped successfully to mate the bitch this year. Another specimen owned by the Marquis – Pek-Te I. – unhappily dies last year from exhaustion after giving birth to twelve dead pups.
"The Phu-Quoc dog is a well-built, strongly made and active dog, with very powerful jaws. In colour it is brown, and our illustrations of the brace, held by the Marquis's keeper, gives a very good idea of the size of the breed.
A great peculiarity of the pure Phu-Quoc of unmixed lineage is that the hair on the back, instead of growing in the usual way, points towards the head of the dog."
TWO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PHU-QUOC DOG
(No living specimen of this animal has ever entered England.)
