204 The Fox Terrier. 



be imagined. This enterprising company likewise issue a 

 useful handbook, " The Common Sense of Dog Doctoring," 

 which may easily find a corner in any house where a dog 

 is kept, and no domicile ought to be without at least one 

 specimen of the canine race, who will earn his living as 

 a watch dog and as an agreeable companion. 



There is a possibility, though not a probability, that the 

 fox terrier bitch when she has pupped may die, or be too ill 

 to suckle her family. Then a foster mother must be pro- 

 cured, whose pups having been destroyed, she should be 

 allowed to become a little extended with milk, and one of 

 the fox terriers placed with her and put to suckle. In 

 nine cases out of ten she will take kindly to her foster 

 child, and may be left with it, the others being placed with 

 her immediately afterwards ; and, when she has been seen 

 to lick and clean them all alike, the adoption may be con- 

 sidered complete. The same when a puppy or two are put 

 to her amongst her own offspring, and which may be done 

 when your well-bred bitch has a more numerous litter than 

 she can suckle. Puppies can, of course, be reared with 

 ordinary milk given through the instrumentality of a child's 

 feeding bottle ; but this is a troublesome method and one 

 never practised excepting when the puppies, of unusual 

 value, have been left orphans by the death of their mother, 

 and when a foster parent cannot be obtained. Spratt's 

 Patent, already alluded to, have provided what is con- 

 sidered to be a good substitute for milk, in the form of an 

 " orphan puppy food," which is convenient when the 

 supply of milk from the dam is not sufficient for her 

 family. 



With a possibility of the bitch, when in a certain condi- 

 tion, getting loose and contracting a cross-bred or mongrel 



