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Albert, it was his warm behavior toward Dash that ultimately won her love. It was during Queen Victoria’s reign that the first organized dog shows were staged in the UK, and this led to the formal recognition of many different breeds. Breeders of the day favored the King Charles with a flat face, dome skull, low-set ears, and prominent eyes—the body of a little spaniel and the face of a Pug. The longer-nosed type was much less popular, and it was not until the early 20th century that we hear of them again. American challenge In the early 1920s an American dog fancier by the name of Ros- well Eldridge traveled to England to attend the Crufts Dog Show. He had seen paintings of the earlier type of King Charles Spaniel,

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