410 WALKING FOXHOUND PUPPIES. 



confidence, I would, in selecting a couple of pups from 

 the usual cartload, prefer to take from those who came 

 and faced me boldly, as if inquiring my business, rather 

 than to seek for "show" points among those who 

 require to be dragged from the back of the cart for 

 inspection. Many people are debarred from walking- 

 foxhound pups from the tales they have heard about 

 their destructiveness, but these yarns are grossly 

 exaggerated, for the youngsters are no worse than 

 ordinary puppies in their desire to try their new teeth 

 on sponges, brushes, boots or anything else they can 

 procure. If they are taught from the first that such 

 things are riot, and are given in their idle moments a 

 bone on which to expend their energy, they will 

 peacefully occupy themselves with it for hours, and 

 after they have eaten it or as much of it as is possible 

 to be broken off, they will solemnly proceed to inter it 

 for resurrection on some future occasion. 



A young dog who has had his necessary exercise, will 

 prefer to sleep than to get into mischief; but if kept 

 idle, he will naturally seek some means of working off 

 his pent-up energy. It is as cruel to punish a young 

 animal for gnawing and biting inanimate objects, as it 

 is to strike a teething infant who is similarly prone to 

 use his teeth on anything he can get hold of. We 

 generally supply such a child with a bone ring or 

 something equally safe to bite ; and if we do not give 

 a puppy a bone, he will quickly find something for 

 himself. I have a sheep-dog pup who, having gnawed 

 and buried a boot in the paddock, was brought to me 



