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have been so had the victim possessed 

 health and strength. Yet how seldom is 

 given the true reason for the unfortunate 

 state of affairs. Constitutional weakness, 

 a severe cold, or other equally absurd sup- 

 positions, will be blamed, but never a hint 

 that the poor dog was sacrificed by his 

 owner's ignorance, carelessness or indiffer- 

 ence. 



It is true that there are cases of consti- 

 tutional weakness, and it is also true that 

 occasionally a severe cold or other malady 

 will prove to be disastrous, perhaps from 

 causes beyond our control or that we do 

 not understand ; but in a very large major- 

 ity of cases of this nature the primary causes 

 arc lack of health and vitality, the results 

 of want of proper food and care. 



Many who own dogs are not aware of 

 the amount of thought that they should 

 give to proper food and care if they would 

 have healthy animals. Ignorance, careless- 

 ness or, worse than these, indifference to 



