24<| USEFUL INFORMATION REGARDING DOGS. 



into a common cur, and you are competed to apollogize for your pet when 

 your friends visit you. "Silk is never sold for the price of calico. All 

 fine bred animals cost more because they are harder to raise. Always be 

 willing to pay a fair priee for a good one. Buy of legitimate breeders and 

 you'll get the worth of your money. 



Receiving Dogs. — If you buy a dog that comae to you by express and 

 has had a long trip, having left his home to come to a new one and among 

 strangers, and he at first should act scared, shy or sulky, and, of course, 

 then not look his best, don't conclude that the dog is not as he was repre- 

 sented by the seller, and that you have been fooled, but speak to him 

 kindly pet him, and it won't be long till he will see that be has found 

 a friend mi his new master, and while, no doubt, he may think of the 

 home and friends he has left, and very often silently grieve for them, yet 

 he will Quickly learn to love the new master, and show by his actions 

 how happy he is in his new home. When thus at his ease and recovered 

 from the strain and excitement of the trip, he will act and look himself 

 aeain and now is the time to judge him and see if he is not as repre- 

 sented, which he will prove to be, I think, especially if he was purchased 

 from a reliable breeder. 



When you take the dog out of his crate, unless he has a collar on 

 and vou at first hold him by this or his chain, the best plan is to take him 

 out of the box in a yard or room, for he might be badly frightened under 

 the circumstances and get away from you. Also see the first thing that his 

 collar is tight enough, so no danger of his slipping it over his head if 

 scared and getting away perhaps. 



Very many dogs I receive for shows have a collar on so loose that, if 

 from fright or any undue cause, they could easily slip it off and escape. 

 Don't have it so tHght that it chokes, but just so you can run your finger 

 around under it is right— and safe. While for many years I have been 

 a orofessional handler of dogs at bench shows, having at some shows as 

 manv as seventy dogs of all breeds to receive and care for during the week, 

 and the greater part of them being strange to me, this being our first in- 

 troduction I never had any trouble, and not a dog in the many I have thus 

 handled for others but was just as good a friend of mine, and quickly, 

 too as were my own favorites that I had brought from my kennels. . 



' After receiving a dog, gife him a chance in the yard to attend to 

 nature's calls, which he will very likely want to do, and you watch, to 

 kpp the condition of his bowels. He may be either constipated or vice versa, 

 Either due to having "held in" for too long a trip in his box. Very many 

 matured dogs will not "empty" in a box on a trip, and herein lies the 

 greatest danger of long trips by express when they do not empty in box, 

 the verv natural result being either inflammation of the bowels or kidneys 

 -—either or both. If dog is bound up, the feces being voided with a hard 

 pffort and it is dry and very hard, give the dog a dose of castor and olive 

 oil mixed If bowels are too loose, passage running from dog too freely 

 and very thin attend to this, as treated under its heading, but such cases 

 eenerally yield to proper feeding for a day or so with foods to fit the case. 

 A nuppy will often stand a long trip (if fed and watered en route) better 

 than an adult dog, because the pups will attend to nature's calls en route, 

 which is all the better even if it arrives soiled from so doing — almost cer- 

 tain to be so, confined in a box. 



Receiving Puppies. — Many people who buy puppies do not give them 

 nrooer care on their arrival in the new home. In order to insure success 

 with a puppy take it carefully from the crate in which it is received, mak- 

 ine as little noise as possible in so doing. Speak to it in a pleasant and 

 svmnathetic way, calling it by its name, if it has any, which fact should 

 alwavs be ascertained before receipt of the puppy from the seller, if possi- 

 hle After removal from the crate, be careful that the puppy does not 

 eet frightened and run off and hide. In order to avoid this, let the 

 vounester out into a space of moderate size at first. Bear In mind 

 that the journey, however short, has had the tendency to frighten and make 

 nervous any young dog. . 



