1 88 OUR HOME PETS 



The best plan for feeding is to make a law, 

 and enforce it rigidly, that a dog shall never 

 have a mouthful from the table. Let him 

 have his regular eating time, and not immedi- 

 ately following the family meals, so that he 

 will be hungry and expecting it when they 

 eat. It is said that two meals a day are 

 enough for a dog, and just before the family 

 breakfast, and perhaps four or five o'clock in 

 the afternoon, are convenient hours. Care 

 should be taken that he does not eat so much 

 as to grow fat, and that he has the proper 

 kind and variety of food. It is a mistake to 

 give table scraps alone, to stuff him with raw 

 meat, or to starve him on bare bones. He 

 should have a little cooked meat, not highly 

 spiced, or bread soaked in gravy, some plain 

 vegetables, and a mush of some cereal, all 

 mixed together, and not so much of it that he 

 can pick out the meat and leave the rest. A 

 bone not so hard as to spoil the teeth is good 

 to gnaw on occasionally. 



The dishes from which a dog is fed should 

 be as clean as one's own, and never of rusty 

 tin or iron; earthen-ware is better; and what 

 is left on them should be at once removed- 



