TREATMENT OF THE DOG IN HEALTH. 



First Principles. 



Teach your dog to obey you through kindness if possible, but 

 ie.ich it. Remember always that it has as much feeling as the 

 average human being, and wonders can be worked through kind- 

 ness. Rather than strike it with a whip, strike at it, the swish of 

 the whip generally having about as much effect as a well-delivered 

 " strike." 



The next duty is to teach the dog to be clean about the house. 

 Should it forget itself, make its nose welfacquainted with the " of- 

 fense," rubbing it as hard as you please, "warm its jacket" well, 

 and then turn it out of doors with a well-delivered slap on the body. 

 A repetition of the " moral suasion " act is rarely necessary. In the 

 morning let it out of the house into the yard the first thing you 

 do, and repeat it the last thing before retiring ; it will soon learn 

 to understand the meaning of all this and cease to cause trouble. 

 Patience — and sometimes a great deal of it, too — is required to 

 make the dog "well mannered," but perseverance will achieve the 

 desired result. Never strike a dog on the head ; the body pre- 

 sents sufficient surface. 



Breaking to Chain. 



Some dogs take kindly to instruction in this regard, others reuel 

 against it. Put a collar on the dog several days before you intend 

 breaking it to chain. Try conscientiously the coaxing process 

 first; if it fails, then nothing remains but to drag the dog along 

 till from fear of choking it is forced to follow. Once having 

 undertaken it, don't stop till you have accomplished your object. This 

 treatment should not in stubborn cases last over half an hour, though 

 sometimes heavy and headstrong dogs may require two hours. 

 In the majority of cases after half an hour's teaching the dog will 

 lead " steady by jerks," and in a couple of days will become used 



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