presence of worms are not hard to detect and as nine out of 



ten yes, ninety-nine out of a hundred pups have them it is 



a very safe guess that the first thing that ails a puppy will be 

 worms. The indications that worms give are many and it is 

 impossible to tell just how a dog will act when suffering from 

 them, but the following are some of the more common symp- 

 toms. Nervousness, twitching and restlessness in the sleep, 

 changeable appetite, a seeming desire to eat dirt and rubbish, 

 thinness and wasting. All or any of these may be taken as a 

 message from a very undesirable visitor and you should act 

 accordingly. In order to expell the worms it is necessary to 

 use powerful medicines and as the pup's stomach is not made of 

 cast iron you must not be surprised if he is upset. Almost all 

 of the worm medicines and powders that are on the market are 

 good, though, of course, there are some that are better than 

 others. It is, however, a fact that the worm medicines, while 

 they will all of them drive out the worms, will often cause the 

 puppy's death and what is more one medicine may not harm one 

 dog but will kill his own brother or sister. There are, however, 

 one or two medicines that have been so greatly improved that 

 they are harmless, yet a sure cure in a vast majority of the 

 cases, and as it is a question of having the worms kill the dog or 

 taking a chance, it is always better to use a vermifuge. Once the 

 worms are out of the system a puppy will generally go along very 

 nicely, with the exception of an occasional case of colic or some 

 similar ailment, till he cuts his second teeth. The complications 

 that are apt to set in at this time are numerous enough to fill 

 a very respectable volume in themselves, but I will not attempt 

 to describe them. Suffice it to say that warmth, appropriate 

 nourishment, and careful nursing are the best cure for all the 

 teething troubles and are the main factors that are to be relied 

 upon during this trying time. Unless you have a long expe- 

 rience in such matters and are well acquainted with the prop- 

 erties of different medicines it will be well for you to trust to 

 nursing and care, leaving the responsibility of dosing to rest 

 upon a more experienced pair of shoulders than your own. 



Words fail when the Boston Terrier fancier tries to describe 

 his feeling towards that most-to-be-dreaded and very disastrous 

 disease, distemper. In the past few years science has made 

 great strides in discovering the causes and cures for the differ- 

 ent diseases that affect not only man, but his best friend, and 

 much has been done with distemper. It has been discovered 



