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apparent or imaginary ills of his charge are 

 most creditable to his heart, it is, alas! 

 also true that the result of the anxious, 

 owner's efforts, in very many instances, end 

 most disastrously for the object of his 

 solicitude, whose life or health is destroyed 

 by the very means that are used to accom- 

 plish directly opposite results. 



Nursing, instead of dosing the human 

 patient who is a little under the weather, 

 will very often bring one through threat- 

 ened trouble all right. That the same is 

 strikingly true regarding the canine patient 

 I have for many years been thoroughly 

 convinced. Dogs, whether of high or low 

 deo-ree, with very rarely an exception, are 

 wonderfully sensitive to the treatment they 

 receive from those who have the care of 

 them. A kind or a reproachful word will 

 raise them to the heaven of delight or sink 

 them in the slough of despondency. How 

 all-important is it then that we should treat 

 them at all times, but more especially when 



