126 THE AMERICAN HUNTING DOG 



breeders. These outlying kennels would, of 

 course, be identical in design with the one-dog 

 kennel described above, except that for nursing 

 mothers a whelping-box would be needed, that is, 

 a shallow sleeping box with an inner rim around 

 the edge of %-rnch x 3-inch stock, forming a sort 

 of refuge for pups that have fallen in behind the 

 mother's back, and would likely be crushed with 

 out some such gallery to protect them. 



But for warmth and compactness in winter the 

 kennel house is needful. This will have three or 

 more 6 x 8-foot pens, for dogs and bitches not in 

 season, an 8-foot x 8-foot room for bitches in whelp 

 or in heat, a puppy room of the same size, and a 

 large 8-foot x 16-foot room for cooking and stor 

 age. A small steam boiler, similar to those used 

 for greenhouses, answers for cooking operations in 

 the daytime and at night is switched onto the hot- 

 water piping of the kennels, as a very moderate 

 amount of heat is well worth while in mid-winter, 

 and is particularly necessary in the puppy and 

 whelping-rooms. The great problems of success 

 ful kennel management are, cheap wholesome food 

 and isolation of disease. No dog can get distem 

 per without smelling or touching something al 

 ready contaminated by a dog that has had it. 

 Each of the main rooms of the kennel house lead 



