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the time, treated for worms, and thought she was rid of them, but could 

 not account for the cough. I was ou the lookout and seen her have a 

 passage of a bloody and mucous nature. Toward night I concluded it 

 might be worms, gave her a dose of Sergeant's Sure Shot after she had 

 fasted from breakfast till supper time, and the result was — finding several 

 small thread worms in her passage after the vermifuge had worked, and 

 here was the cause of the dry, hard cough. I followed this up the next 

 morning with a second dose of "Sure Shot," got more thread worms, and 

 the bitch feeling much better, wanting to eat, and her cough very much 

 better. She fully recovered. All this goes to show that you must get 

 rid of the Worms — as they are the cause of more trouble to dogs than from 

 any other cause or a combined lot of causes, you may as truthfully say. 



Honie Sickness. — This is often seen in dogs which, from some causa 

 or other, have to leave their home and friends, and reside for a time in a 

 hospital. It therefore behooves every one who has charge of such dogs to 

 make them comfortable, and treat them as nearly as possible, consistent 

 with rational and medical treatment, as they would be at home. It is 

 absolutely cruel to place a nervous and highly sensitive pet dog in a kennel 

 surrounded by other dogs which are continually barking, or to give them 

 over entirely to an attendant, which is too frequently done in hospitals, 

 the owner of the establishment, or the veterinary surgeon, only attending 

 at intervals. All pets should be taken into the house, or have a special 

 place set apart for them, where they can receive personal attention and have 

 their small comforts attended to. 



Very much the best plan is to not send your pet to any veterinary 

 hospital, but to keep it home where it will much better endure the ordeal 

 it may have to go through, and have the surgeon come there to treat it. 



The dog will be happier in his own home where it will receive, aside 

 from the treatment of the doctor, the kind care and attention it could not 

 get in a strange place, among strangers and strange surroundings. 



Hookworms. — The process by which the hookworm reaches the intes- 

 tines is most interesting. The egg, or embryo, is deposited in fecal matter 

 within the intestines. It hatches, or develops, after being exposed to air 

 and moisture, usually within twelve to twenty-four hours, if the tempera- 

 ture is above seventy or eighty degrees Fahrenheit. In about eight days, 

 under favorable conditions, such as being on warm, wet ground, it attains 

 full growth (microscopically) and is ready to infest, which it does by boring 

 through the skin or mucous membrane of the mouth into the blood canals, 

 and is carried along with the blood currents to the lungs; then it bores 

 through the walls of the blood canals into the air sacs and crawls up 

 through the windpipe to the throat, and then passes directly to the in- 

 testines, either by crawling or being swallowed with food or water, attaches 

 itself to intestinal. membranes and begins a life which lasts from six to 

 ten years, unless expelled. It subsists entirely upon the blood which it 

 sucks. After it is attached, it grows to a length of one-third to one-half 

 inch, the female being somewhat larger than the male, as shown in illus- 

 tration. She is very prolific and one dog which is infested will pollute a 



