452 DOGS USED FOR SPORT. 



see that no projecting and unclinched nails remain which may 

 injure the eyes. 



The Toronto (Canada) Hunt Club has a model kennel house, 

 a very pretty gothic lodge for the huntsmen and spacious kennels 

 for the pack. A house for cooking the canine diet, a stable for 

 one or two horses and a large rangy shed for the horses of mem- 

 bers of the club, the whole enclosed with a close eight-foot fence. 



FEEDING. 



In feeding, an anatomical and physiological view cannot fail to 

 be a safe index to the system to be pursued. By these aids we 

 are led to conclude that dogs are not wholly carnivorous, but are 

 so formed as to derive nutriment from either vegetable or animal 

 matter. We see them voluntarily seeking vegetable substances at 

 certain seasons, which they devour with avidity ; probably as a 

 necessary corrective of the tendency to putridity which a diet en- 

 tirely confined to animal food begets. 



Carrion is to be avoided, it being universally admitted that it 

 works to the injury of the animal's sense of smell ; at all events it 

 tends to give an unhealthy and disagreeable odor to the animal. 

 Healthy animal food when properly administered, forms the most 

 nutritious of diets, and is better adapted for sustaining the sport- 

 ing powers of dogs than any other. Sprat's biscuits are for this 

 reason highly recommended ; but we would suggest they be fre- 

 quently broken up and made into broth instead of feeding them 

 continuously in a dry state. Barley and oat meals, the dross of 

 wheat flour, or any mixture of these same, with broth or skimmed 

 milk, is very proper food, varying it twice or thrice a week with 

 greaves, from which the tallow has been pressed, mixed with flour ; 

 or sheep's feet and heads, well baked, or boiled, form a very good 

 diet. Good scraps from the table undoubtedly answer as well ; 

 the greatest objection to their use being the natural tendency to 

 dispose of all such at once, without reference to quantity, by giving 

 to the dog, whereby he becomes over-fed. 



Puppies demand more food in proportion than adult dogs ; and 

 there is also greater danger of surfeiting with certain foods. Never 

 allow your dogs to loaf around the kitchen ; in spite of all you may 

 say or do, servants cannot, and will not, resist the beseeching and 



