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FEEDING THE DOG 





Digestive System ^ ^. v« 



Anus 



(Appendix) 



Stnall Intestine 



Do^ World/ 



Finely ground meat with very little fat 

 in it, rubbed on the whiskers or muzzle as 

 early as the age of three weeks teaches 

 puppies to lick it off and be anxious for 

 solid lean meat by the time they are six 

 weeks old- 

 Feeding, as the author points out in his 

 work Principles of Dog Breeding, does not 

 bring oversize; it may bring fatness. Size 

 is a mould determined by heredity. The 

 bone structure is determined by the parent 

 ftnd not by the diet. 



"StuflT' a Puppy 



It is a safe rule to stuff the puppies 

 every day until they are well on the way 

 to maturity. You can hardly overfeed a 

 puppy. Every day the puppy is growing 

 almost visibly ; there is tremendous need 

 of building increased stamina, which must 

 be obtained thru food and exercise. It is 

 good policy to "feed often — not too much 

 at a time." 



Beware of bullies in a litter. Peed the 

 puppies individually; if they are fed in a 

 group, the strongrer ones push the weaker 

 ones away. 



To feed puppies individually, use a 

 trough partitioned so that each pt«ppy is 

 placed in a stall of its own. 



Nursing "Orphans" 



Evaporated milk and water in equal 

 (luantities with some added cream mixed 

 in with an es« beater, is excellent for 

 puppies removed from the mother's breast 

 at an early age. Puppies can be alter- 

 nated between the mother's breast and a 

 pan of milk. 



If nursing puppies lose their mother, 

 powdered milk can be used but should not 

 be diluted greatly. If cow's fresh milk be 

 used, cream should be added to bring tiie 



fat and protein content more nearly to 

 that of the bitch's milk. See also page 16. 

 Feed from a nursing bottle, using the 

 rubber end of an "eye dropper" or if 

 puppies are very small, insert milk in 

 mouth with eye dropper. Feed at a 

 temperature of about 900, every two to 

 three hours. 



Various Digestive Puppy Ills 



If young puppies vomit, likely it is due 

 to a change in the mother's milk or to 

 digestive disturbances in the puppy itself. 

 Remove the puppy from the mother and 

 grive peppermint water. 



Constipated puppies can be taken care 

 of easily by griving a few drotps of milk 

 of magnesia or mineral oil. If castor 

 oil is used, it should be followed by mineral 

 oil within a few hours. Constipation is 

 dangerous in puppies and should be taken 

 care of inomediately, else it may lead to 

 death. Also check rectum ; the opening 

 may be caked. 



Diarrhea in puppies should be stop«>ed 

 promptly. No water at any time. Castor 

 oil, preferably with a few drops of 

 (paregoric, should be given. Give boiled 

 milk for drinking. Put kaolin in it — an 

 even teaspoon per half pint. 



Barley water or thin oatmeal is useful 

 in this and in almost all cases where there 

 is intestinal trouble. 



Dj^entery, which is evidenced by loose, 

 bloody stools, is serious. Follow the sug- 

 gestions under diarrhea and add small 

 doses of bismuth subgallate. 



A test for acidity in the milk is made 

 by dipping a strip of blue litmus paper 

 in milk; it turns a red color if acidi^ 

 is present. 



Some dogrs, like some hunums cannot 

 tolerate milk. 



G— HOW OFTEN TO FEED 



Time Required for Digestion 



Eighteen hours is the average time for 

 food to pass thru the digestive system 

 of the adult dog. Pap or soup mixtures 

 begin to pass out of the stomach in about 

 five minutes and within a half-hour the 

 stomach is entirely emptied. From the 

 stomach the food passes to the small in- 

 testine and from the small intestine into 

 the large inestine, to lodge as refuse in 

 the colon until it passes out thru the 

 rectum. 



Coleson in Paris in 1931 found out by 



radiographic tests that food in the stomach 

 of the normal dog required 15 to 28 hours 

 to pass entirely out of the stomach. 



Pan? is entirely out of the small intestine 

 within six hours, beginning to leave about 

 three hours after the pap is received. 



Solid food passes more slowly. After it 

 is in the stomach for an hour, it begins 

 to flow in the small intestine. After ten 

 hours the stomach is entirely emptied. 



The little intestine retains the food for 

 about ten hours. The colon retains the 



