EXAMPLES OF HUNTING^KENNELS. 



PLATES XXII. & XXIII. 



Designs for Kennels, with Huntsman's Residence, &c. 



THE favour with which the old Enghsh sport of fox-hunting is 

 regarded in this country will be in itself a justification for the 

 insertion of this design for a kennel, as much as the close connection 

 there is between it and the subject of stables. Where a lodging for 

 hounds has to be provided, it is as wise and economical in the long-run 

 to have it well done at first, both with regard to the expenditure in- 

 curred in maintaining a building of any kind afterwards, and also as 

 to the health and preservation of the animals, which must always 

 necessarily be to some extent affected for good or for bad by the 

 lodging into which they are introduced or in which they have been 

 brought up. For instance, in the choice of a site one cannot be too 

 fastidious, for in the proper selection of this depends to a great extent 

 the comfort of the hounds, and their fit condition for the chase when 

 required. At one time to such an extent had kennel-lameness grown 

 amongst the various packs through out the country, that sporting gen- 

 tlemen were at their wits' end to find out the reason why such an unfor- 

 tunate disease was so rife. It has, however, now been fully explained, 

 that anything in the shape of damp under or even surrounding a kennel, 

 has a great deal to do with the outbreak of lameness. Therefore it is 

 necessary that great care should be taken in the selection of a site, 

 where the hounds have to spend a considerable part of their existence. 

 Having decided upon a place where the soil is of a sufficiently dry and 



