Other Foods. 53 



Experiment has shown that the juices in 

 the stomach of the dog will purify and 

 sweeten in a very short time even badly 

 tainted meat, and upon this fact is based 

 the claim, by superficial writers, that it is 

 not in any sense improper food — ignoring 

 the fact that the abnormal quantity of the 

 juices of the stomach required to perform 

 this work exhausts in a measure the supply 

 necessary for the proper digestion and 

 absorption of the food next taken. 



All meats should be kept awhile after 

 being killed, as this makes them more 

 tender, renders them easier of digestion, 

 and consequently more nutritious. Beef 

 I believe to be the most valuable of any 

 meat for dogs, although horse meat Is also 

 excellent. Mutton Is not quite so nu- 

 tritious, but is much more easily digested, 

 and is therefore the best to use In all 

 cases of disturbance of the digestive organs. 

 The meat of any kind of very young an- 

 imals is not so nutritious, nor is it so easily 



