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FEEDING THE DOG 



day — a three-quarter cup of milk and food 

 two times and four ounces of food for 

 each of the other two. 



4 months to 8 months, feed three times 

 a day — a large cup of milk once and 

 seven ounces of food twice. 



8 months to 15 months, feed two times 

 a day — a large cuip of milk with toast, 

 cereal and commercial dog food, for one 

 meal, and a generous twelve ounces of 

 food for the other meal. 



After 15 months, feed a drink of milk 

 in the morning with light food, and a 

 pound of food in the late afternoon. 



Feeding Large-Sized Dogs 



The large breeds (31 to 60 pounds) in- 

 clude the following breeds — Afghan 

 hound, airedale terrier, Belgian sheepdog, 

 bouvier de Flandres, briard, bulldog, bull- 

 terrier, Chespeake Bay, chow chow, collie, 

 dalmatian, foxhound both the American 

 and the English, greyhound, wirehaired 

 pointing griffon, kerry blue terrier, Nor- 

 wegian elkhound. Old English sheepdog, 

 otterhound, doberman pinscher, retriever, 

 saluki, samoyede, setter (English, Irish 

 and Gordon), spaniel (clumber, field, Irish 

 water, springer and Sussex), Staffordshire 

 terrier, American water spaniel. 



For the large-sized breeds (maturing 31 

 to 60 pounds) the schedule to be main- 

 tained is as follows: 



6 weeks to 4 months old, feed four times 

 a day — one and one-half cups of milk and 

 light food two times and eight ounces of 

 food for each of the other two. 



4 months to 8 months old, feed three 

 times a day — ^two cups of milk with light 

 food once, and twelve ounces of food twice. 



• Smooth fox terrier puppies "at it' 



8 months to 15 months old. feed two 

 times a day — one and one-half cups of 

 milk with light food for one meal and 

 twenty ounces of food for the other meal. 



After 15 months, feed once a day, up 

 to two pounds of food but give a drink 

 of milk with light food in the morning. 



For breeds maturing 61 to 99 pounds, 

 increase the foregoing ONE-HALF. These 

 breeds include Scottish deerhound, giant 

 schnauzer, great Pyrenees, borzoi, blood- 

 hound. 



For extra large breeds (100 to 200 

 pounds), such as dane, mastiff, Newfound- 

 land, St. Bernard and Irish wolfhound, 

 these quantities should easily be 

 DOUBLED. 



The frequent specification for milk is 

 not to be interpreted that it is essential. 

 Broths, soups, and other moisture can be 

 substituted. Many puppies are reared with- 

 out a drop of milk after six weeks of age. 



I— FEEDING EQUIPMENT 



Keep the food dish clean. Do not permit 

 grease to harden in it. Wash it daily with 

 hot water. Keep the scum from harden- 

 ing on it. 



A heavy flat dish, with the outside 

 bottom wider than the top rim, can not 

 be toppled over and can not be moved 

 easily. (See illustration next page.) 



Do not use the food dish as a water 

 dish. Remove the food dish out of sight 

 as soon as the dog has finished. 



Dogs of long ears such as setters and 

 spaniels, should eat out of dishes of small 

 opening. 



After a dog has eaten all he cares for, 

 take away the food. Do not have food 

 available to him at all times ; otherwise, 

 he will not have an appetite at any time. 



Individual feeding dishes lessen the op- 

 portunity for puppies, usually the bullies 

 of the litter, to overfeed and to have such 

 stuffed paunches that, particularly if in- 

 fested with round worms, they sit long on 

 their haunches, their thighs extended out- 

 ward, which habit intensifies cowhock 

 tendencies. 



J— MISCELLANEOUS AND CONCLUSION 



A change in dog food or a new dog food 

 usually makes the dog laxative for about 

 five days. 



Any dog food, however good, becomes 

 tasteless after a time; every fourth day, 

 change the diet. 



When introducing a new food, have the 

 dogs hungry, else they will not eat it as 

 they have an instinctive suspicion of a 

 strange eatable. 



One pound of powdered milk mixed with 

 ten pounds of water gives the consistency 

 of original skim milk (milk from which 

 the fat content — cream, has been re- 

 moved). Feed this to growing puppies if 

 fresh milk is not obtainable. 



Dry or powdered milk has an abundance 

 of lactose, which in turn fights bacterial 

 action from decay in the colon. 



Estimated cost of proper feeding of 

 fifteen dogs of a small-to-medium sized 

 breed is $3.00 per dog per month. 



Keep dog food away from kerosene, 

 onions and the like to avoid odors. Keep 

 in a cool dry place, preferably in covered 

 metal containers. 



Monotonous diet, unchanged week after 

 week, tends to make dogs less potent 

 sexually. 



Hulled bran, such as humans eat, tends 

 to relieve constipation, but rough bran, 

 such as fed to horses, tends to check 

 diarrhea. 



