The Turnspit dog is a short-legged, long-bodied dog that is raised to walk on wheels, called a turnspit or a dog's wheel, to change the flesh. This type is now extinct. Mentioned in Of English Dogs in 1576 under the name "Turnespete". William Bingley Memoir of British Quadrupeds (1809) also talked about dogs employed to help chefs and cooks. It is also known as Kitchen Dogs, Dog Cooking, Disturbed, and Vernepator . In the classification of the 18th century Linnaeus dogs are listed as Canis vertigus . This breed is lost because it is considered a low and common dog so that no record works effectively. Some sources consider Turnspit a kind of Glen of Imaal Terrier, others make it a relative of Corgi Corgi.
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Work
Vernepator Cur grew up to walk on wheels to change the meat so it would rip up evenly. Due to the heavy nature of work, a pair of dogs often work in shifts. According to John George Wood in The Illustrated Natural History (Mammalia) (1853):
Just as the invention of the rotating jenny eliminates the use of distaff and wheels, which were once the inhabitants of every well-ordained English hut, so the invention of the grilling automation-jack has destroyed the Occupation of the Turnspit Dogs, and by degrees has almost destroyed its existence. Here and there a solitary Turnspit can be seen, just like a spinning wheel or wooden slats can be seen in some remote huts; but neither the Dog nor its implementation is an exception to the general rule, and merely deserves attention as a curious relic from the past.
In the earlier days, and even in the recall of the present generation, the task of roasting meat or poultry is something very serious, and requires the constant presence of the cook, to prevent the flesh being damaged by unequal fire action. Smoke-jack, as it is somewhat improperly called - so far it is turned, not by the smoke, but by the hot air rushing up the chimney - is a huge increase, as the spit spins at a level associated with the heat of the fire.
However, a complicated apparatus can not be applied to all chimneys, or in all places, and therefore the service of the Turnspit Dog is included in the request list. On one end of the saliva, a large round box, or hollow wheel, is something like a wire wheel so often added to the squirrel cages; and in this wheel Dogs get used to doing their daily chores, by keeping them working. Because labor will become too big for a Dog, it's usually to keep at least two animals for that purpose, and to get them to release each other periodically. The dogs are quite capable of appreciating the lapse of time, and, if not free of their hard work at the right hour, will jump out of the wheel without command, and force their friends to take their place, and finish their portions every day working hard.
The dogs were also taken to church to serve as leg warmers. One story says that while serving at a church in Bath, Bishop Gloucester gave a sermon and uttered the phrase "That's when Ezekiel sees the wheel...". When mentioning the word "wheel" some turnspit dogs, who were brought to church as foot warmers, ran to the door.
Queen Victoria continues to resign as a pet dog.
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Appearance
Turnspits are described as "long-bodied dogs, crooked and ugly necks, with a suspicious and unhappy look about them". Delabere Blaine, a 19th-century vet (and self-described "dog pathology"), classifies turnspit dogs as spaniels. Often, they are shown with a white line in the middle of their faces. According to Bingley Memoir of British Quadrupeds (1809):
The Turnspits are amazing for their large body lengths and short legs and are usually crooked. Their color is generally grayish black with black or all black with whitish bottom.
The Turnspit once again explained by H.D. Richardson in his book Dog; Their Origin and Variety (1847):
This dog although obviously a dog closer to the terrier than the other and in this account I describe it among them. He is a small dog with a long back made with front legs bent over and then out he often in pied or glaucous colored like Great Denmark dogs and harlequin terriers
The crooked legs are likely to be owed very distant ancestors as listed in Dogs And All About They (1910), by Robert Leighton:
Among the different races kept in Egypt there is a large wolf dog, a large dog, large with drooping ears and a pointed head, at least two Greyhound varieties used to hunt deer, and a small terrier or Turnspit. , with crooked short legs. The latter seems to have been considered a major domestic pet, as he was accepted into the living room and taken as a chaperone to walk outside the home. It is equipped with a collar of leaves, or of leather, or precious metal that is forged into leaf shape, and when it dies it is embalmed. Every city in the whole of Egypt has a burial place for a dog's mummy.
The genes for chondrodysplasia in various short-legged breeds have been confirmed to trace back to a single ancestral mutation.
References
Further reading
- Morris, Desmond (2002). Dog: The Main Dictionary of over 1,000 Race Dogs . Ebury Press. ISBN: 0-09-187091-7.
External links
- "Whiskey" turnspit dog, 19th century, last photo of Turnspit Dog, filled
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