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reasonable number of years, should not be used 

 more frequently than once a week. I have found 

 it pays best to give the bitch in whelp a 

 generous feed of raw meat daily. It often 

 effectually prevents the puppy-eating habit. 



In closing these general hints on breeding, al- 

 low me to say there is no reason whatever, if 

 one has a genuine love for the dog and is thor- 

 oughly in earnest in his attentions to it, why the 

 breeding problem should possess any great 

 terrors for him. Perhaps, before closing this 

 chapter, it might be well to write on one or two 

 matters, practically of no special import, but 

 which may at times be instructive and illuminate 

 some few incidents that may puzzle the be- 

 ginner. 



I allude first to that strange phenomena known 

 as "false heat," to which Bostons, more than 

 any other breed with which the writer is fa- 

 miliar, are liable, and which consists of the bitch 

 coming "in season" between the two periods in 

 the year when she legitimately should do so, and 

 after being warded by the dog, is, of course, not 

 in whelp. The next is somewhat akin to this, 

 and consists of the fact that the bitch, after 

 being properly warded by a dog, notwithstanding 

 all the external evidences of being in whelp, 

 even to the possession of milk in her breasts at 

 the expiration of the ninth week, is not so, nei- 



