PUPPIES AND THEIR CARE 



INTRODUCTION 



Owning a dog is a serious responsibility. 

 To enjoy the position of dog's master in- 

 curs obligation. The dog surrenders many 

 of his natural rights and habits in return 

 for the servitude he gives the human. 



The puppy is the perfect example of 

 trusting loyalty. To him all the world's 

 a stranger to be greeted. Not only each 

 day but each moment of each hour of the 

 day, he discovers something new in our 

 world of humans, in which he must live. 



Life is an endless chain experience of 

 play, discovery and thrills. Not a care 

 worries his carefree soul. What scene on 

 this earth holds more pure happiness than 

 that of a litter of playing puppies — broth- 

 ers and sisters in a family world that has 

 not yet known separation! 



Consequently, a puppy, particularly if it 

 is brot into a new home, should receive 

 every consideration in the way of feeding, 

 care, housing and training. At three 

 months of age, it compares with the in- 

 fant just out of the cradle ; and to a 

 great extent the same care which the 

 child receives, should be given to the 

 puppy. 



Need of Common Sense 



One should not hesitate to buy a puppy 

 because of the fear that it cannot be 

 cared for properly. The dog has an im- 

 mense amount of reserve stamina which 

 keeps it in health and activity, notwith- 

 standing all the wrong administrations 

 and lack of care the human master may 

 be guilty of. 



Bring the puppy into the home as a 

 member of your household, use common 

 sense, and in nine cases of ten, he will 

 grow up into a normal, strong, creditable 

 specimen of the canine family. 



Written for Two Classes 



This booklet. Puppies and Their Care, 

 is written for two genei*al groups. First, 

 to some extent for the dog breeder. He 

 has had much experience in weaning and 

 raising puppies ; nevertheless, some of the 

 suggestions here may be helpful to him. 



The second class easily is much larger in 

 number because it embraces all those per- 

 sons who are dog owners and lovers of 

 dogs — they who want a dog for the pro- 

 tection of the home, for a play companion 

 for the child, as a watchdog or for other 

 useful purposes— they who comprise the 

 sales field for the kennel owner and dog 

 breeder. 



And their number in the United State? 

 is easily twelve million, or one out of 

 every eleven persons in this country is a 

 dog owner. 



Should not Own a Dog 



National Dog Week carries the slogan, 

 "Every dog needs a good home." There 

 is a complement to this slogan — "Every 

 good home should have a dog." 



Those persons who do not care for a dog 

 properly, who do not keep the dog on their 

 premises, do not develop the mental abili- 

 ty of the dog thru training, who disre- 

 gard the rights of neighbors, permit the 

 dog to roam about and who do not proper- 

 ly groom and care for the dog — such per- 

 sons are not worthy of owning dogs. 



They are the persons who make neces- 

 sary the dog pound and the dog catcher. 

 They are the ones who, instead of the 

 dogs, should be thrown into the dog 

 catcher's wagon and taken to the dog 

 pound. 



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