DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF DOGS. 359 



the hip or shoulder bone that is fractured and it is a young dog- 

 keep him perfectly quiet and the bones will soon knit together, but 

 if it is a very old dog there is not much chance of the bones 

 knitting together, although they might. If the fracture is down 

 on the leg set the broken bone to its place and have a long, starch 

 bandage (which is a bandage soaked in starch and then wrung out 

 as dry as possible), roll the bandage around the fractured leg 

 letting it go two or three inches above and below the fracture, 

 wrap it moderately tight and hold the leg and bandage straight 

 until the bandage hardens. Keep the dog quiet and leave the 

 bandage on for three or four weeks until the bones are healed and 

 he can use his leg all right. 



BREEDING PUPS AND TROUBLES MET WITH AT PUPPING TIME. 



Bitches usually come in heat about twice a year, but some 

 come oftener than that. She is nine days coming in heat and nine 

 days going off, during that time she will take the dog about nine 

 or ten days. It is best to keep the bitch shut up during the 

 eighteen days, so that no other dog but the one you want to breed 

 to can get at her. If you want to get bitch pups, let the dog to 

 her as soon as she will take him; while if you want to get dog 

 pups, let her go for seven or eight days after she would have taken 

 the dog, before you let the dog to her and you are almost sure to 

 get dog pups. The bitch carries her pups nine weeks. At the end 

 of that time, and a few hours before pupping, she will try to get away 

 to some quiet place and make a nest. As a general thing after she 

 once starts to pup, it does not take her long to have them all. 

 Sometimes we have cases where she cannot pup alone, that is, where 

 one of the pups is coming wrong — sometimes head first with the 

 front legs turned back, and it gets caught at the shoulders. In 

 this case shove the pup back a little, slip your finger in under the 

 front legs and bring them forward, and it will then come all right. 

 If the front legs are coming out and the head and neck are turned 

 back, shove the pup back a little, and straighten the head and 

 neck up along with the front legs, and the pup will soon come all 

 right. Sometimes the pup comes backwards with only his rump 

 and tail up in the passage, in this case shove the pup back and 

 straighten up the two hind feet, and bring the pup away* 

 backwards. Before starting to work at a job of this kind, have 

 your fingers and hands oiled so as not to irritate the bitch, some- 

 times a small hook will be of some use, but if you use one be very 

 careful not to tear her. Bitches are not verv liable to disease after 



