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well broken in three weeks. A very young pup of 

 two to two and a half months cannot go over-night 

 without relief and had better have a newspaper 

 placed handy. To whip him or punish him hard 

 for transgressions is pure cruelty; you would not 

 do so to a ten-months-old baby, nor is the pup any 

 more responsible. But no dog likes to soil his 

 quarters, and will restrain himself as long as 

 possible if the chain is so short that he cannot get 

 away from his sleeping mat. 



Whether he has a kennel in the yard or a mat 

 in the house, let it be a fixed place that he can call 

 his. When doggie has no particular place to sleep, 

 it does not take him long to find out which chairs 

 are the most comfortable, and he will inevitably 

 fill them full of hairs and make them look worn if 

 allowed to sleep in them. The time to check this 

 tendency to climb up into chairs is when extremely 

 young. At the first attempt he is to be lightly 

 punished, scolded and warned. Pepper was the 

 only one of my pups who could not be broken of 

 the chair habit. No amount of licking would cure 

 him, and at the first sound of the wife's footfall 

 descending the staircase Pepper would do a grand 

 sneak out of the morris-chair in the library and 

 look up at her as innocent as a lamb when she 

 came into the room. But a warm chair-seat, 



