DOG BOXES — DOORS 



Dog: Boxes are not so strongly to be recommended 

 for the use of dogs on their travels as baskets, for they 

 naturally do not admit so much air, besides which, should 

 they unfortunately fall off a height, they are liable to break 

 or come open. Some dogs, however, will eat their way 

 out of any basket, and in their case boxes must be used. 

 If so, there should be ventilators covered with perforated 

 iron on the front, sides, and top ; and these should be 

 protected by projecting iron guards, so as to prevent any 

 other boxes or luggage from being packed close up against 

 the dog boxes in the guard's van, as if this is done the 

 animals stand a great chance of being suffocated. (See 

 Journeys,) 



Dog Racing, which must not be confounded with that 

 abomination rabbit coursing, is a form of sport which 

 appeals far more to north countrymen than to resi- 

 dents in the south of England. The method in vogue is 

 to have each dog held on its mark (the competitors are 

 handicapped according to their weights and perform- 

 ances) by an attendant, whilst their trainers or owners 

 proceed nearly to the end of the track and attract their 

 attention by waving handkerchiefs, the wings of birds, 

 or other objects which are likely to be easily seen. On 

 the pistol being fired the attendants let their charges go, 

 and the race proceeds. (See Whippet.) 



Dogue de Bordeaux.— This is a French breed of a 

 decidedly bull-mastiff type which it was attempted to 

 popularise in this country a few years ago, but without 

 success, as the breed is neither attractive nor useful, whilst 

 many dogues de Bordeaux possess most ferocious tempers, 

 which in the case of dogs of their size renders them as 

 dangerous as they are unattractive. 



Doors. — The doors of kennels should always be made 

 to open outwards, as in event of a dog being ill and lying 



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