country the dogs receive but one meal a day and if that is 

 enough to keep these dogs, who get a great deal of systematic 

 exercise, in the pink of condition it is certainly sufficient to keep 

 a house pet in the same state. With some owners it is the 

 custom to feed a big meal at night, while others do this in 

 the morning, which seems to be the better time. The morning 

 meal may consist of scraps, cut up fine and well mixed. This 

 should be done for a double purpose of preventing bolting and 

 affording a chance to have the food when it reaches the stomach 

 of being already mixed. It will also be found a good cure for 

 those dogs who are in the habit of picking and choosing their 

 food. This is generally the result of bad bringing up, though 

 too often overfeeding and consequent lack of appetite is also 

 liable to make a dog fastidious. Meat, fish (carefully boned), 

 cereals, vegetables (except potatoes), and bread all make good 

 things to feed. 



Soups and gruels alternated with dog biscuits should make 

 up the evening meal or lunch. There are half a dozen different 

 kinds of dog crackers on the market and any of the reliable 

 brands are good. The makers of these foods are loud in their 

 praise and extravagant in their claims for them, but long prac- 

 tice has found that they are not a good thing to give a dog as a 

 steady diet. There is a great temptation to do this, especially if 

 one is not keeping house for they are cheap and handy, but the 

 practice is not to be encouraged. , 



The one thing that above all others causes sorrows, sickness 

 and pain to city dogs is the feeding of sweets. I wish that the 

 publishers of this book would allow to have printed in bold type 

 the warning, "Don't feed candy," but this they will not permit, 

 so I will have to be content with making that warning as strong 

 as I can in one short paragraph. There are more dogs that die 

 and suffer from candy eating, I am speaking now of pet dogs 

 only, than from any other half a dozen causes. Candy destroys 

 the desire for real, good, nourishing food, it ruins the stomach 

 and digestion, and it rots the teeth, and yet hundreds of well- 

 meaning, kind-hearted persons who would not willingly cause 

 a dog so much as a fear make them suffer untold agonies, just 

 because they have not strength of mind enough to see a dog beg 

 for what is as bad for them as poison. Here again a dog's sim- 

 ilarity to a child may be seen, for they all dearly love candy, and 

 once given a taste of it will never cease to beg for it. Of course, 

 it is hard to refuse them, but is it not better to do so than to 



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