LIGHT — LINSEED 



he holds is not sufficient. Whether this is good enough 

 law to run the gauntlet of the Court of Appeal is a matter 

 of opinion, and happily the police in most districts are 

 considerate enough not to prosecute a man who has 

 another person's dogs under his care if the owner holds 

 licences to keep them and has sent them with the dogs. 

 On the other hand, it may be pointed out that the licence 

 specifically states that the person named on it may keep 

 a dog, and it may therefore be a question of opinion 

 whether the privilege is extended to another person who 

 may keep the animal. If so, there can be no doubt that 

 there would be a good deal of trafficking in licences on the 

 part of people who have taken them out and who could 

 sell or lend them to others who own dogs, but had omitted 

 to conform to the law. Licences, according to law, expire 

 on December 31st in each year, but a month's latitude 

 is usually allowed to renew them in. 



Light. — All sheds in which dogs are confined should be 

 lighted, but if the windows are low enough dowm to enable 

 the dogs to reach, the precaution should be taken to 

 protect them with strong wire-netting. 



Liniments are a form of counter-irritant which is most 

 useful in cases of rheumatism, bruises, or sprains, but 

 reasonable care should be exercised in applying them, as 

 the skins of some dogs are more sensitive than others ; and 

 if the bruise happens to be broken, an application of a 

 soothing nature and not a counter-irritant is required. 

 The ordinary soap liniment and Elliman's Embrocation 

 are both excellent things to keep ready at hand in the 

 kennel. (See Comttei'-IrritantSy Rheu77iatisin^ Sprains.) 



Linseed is a very valuable constituent of poultices 

 which are applied to reduce inflammation either in cases of 

 bronchitis, pneumonia, and kindred attacks. It is not, 

 however, a material that can be given to dogs as food, 



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