USEFUL INFORMATION REGARDING DOGS. 261 



health and cleanliness, and one bath a week is really just as good, and, 

 if you would give the dog in addition a brushing and grooming, I much 

 prefer tbis plan. Once a month in winter is enough. 



Winter baths are risky, and great care should be exercised as to 

 exposure to wet or cold weather afterward. In giving a bath in cold 

 weather do so in a warm room, using warm water. Give him a good sham- 

 pooing — and nothing so good as your hands — using plenty of soap and 

 rubbing it in so as to open the pores of the skin, and then rinse off with 

 lukewarm water. Avoid getting the soap suds into the dog's eyes, or down 

 too deep into his ears, and thoroughly dry the ears inside. An old wool 

 blanket (a clean one of course), is a good thing for the first drying, finish- 

 ing up with rough towels. Be sure and get the dog's head, neck and breast 

 dry, for here lies the danger of catching cold, and be careful as to exposure 

 out of doors that day if weather is cold or wet, exercising the same care 

 and precaution you would for yourself after a bath. 



Now, as to soap. Don't consider that any soap will do for your dog, 

 for it won't if you value a fine coat on him. Many common soaps will in- 

 jure and ruin a dog's coat even more than they would your own skin if you 

 used them. A cake of dog soap will only cost a quarter and last for 

 several baths, so it's not expensive to use a good one, in fact is cheaper 

 in the end. There is no dog soap "just the same," or, quite as good as 

 Eberhart's. It is a different soap from any other, containing one ingre- 

 dient that no other dog soap ever made — does contain — this one ingre- 

 dient is a secret. There is no carbolic acid in my soap, as there is in so 

 many dog soaps, a dangerous article to use, and quite so in a soap through 

 absorption. It is made in as careful and cleanly a manner as is any soap 

 made for our own use, and I just want to say here that no face soap made 

 for people is quite so good to use on your own face. As a dandruff cure on 

 your head nothing made can surpass it, besides it is a hair grower, and a 

 cure as well for any scalp disease. A quarter pound bar of it I can send 

 you by mail for Twenty-five Cents, or a dozen for $2.50, carriage paid. 



Spend at least ten minutes in thoroughly shampooing your dog, then 

 rinse and dry dog thoroughly. In summer weather a good walk, or a romp 

 in a grassy yard is a very good thing for the dog after a bath and it 

 has been partially dried, which saves you some labor as in turning the dog 

 out in the yard; it will naturally run and romp and finishing drying up. 

 This plan can only work in warm, sunshiny weather. If my soap is used 

 to kill fleas or lice, both of which it will do, then it must be used as di- 

 rected for such cases — the lather being allowed to remain on for some 

 time. Don't allow dog to rest or lie down till its coat is absolutely dry, and 

 never wash within two hours after it was fed. 



As to washing Long Coated Dogs, that will often appear to be dry 

 when they are not, you must exercise great care. Fill a foot tub with 

 lukewarm (not hot) water, so that it reaches to the elbow of the dog, 

 and beginning at head, cover the entire body with soap suds, never letting 

 the soap itself get into the coat. With a soft hair brush of long bristles, 

 brush the hair with the soap suds downward from the centre, until he is 

 perfectly clean. Rinse out the coat with lukewarm water, place the dog on a 

 table, envelope in a soft towel, and smooth it from the centre downward till 

 he is absolutely dry. Never ruffle or rub the coat, or you will spoil it; simply 

 smooth it. 



To prevent a dog catching cold after a bath apply alcohol over the 

 entire body. Exercise after a bath will stimulate circulation. A very 

 little cocoanut oil, thinned with warm alcohol in the palm of the hand, rub- 

 bed over the coat will greatly improve it after washing. 



In lieu of winter baths with no risk to run as to catching cold, a good 

 grooming for ten minutes with a stiff brush will accomplish all the good 

 results of a bath, and this you can do every day with great benefit to the 

 dog. Grooming is better and safer than baths in winter. In preparing dogs 

 for a bench show professional handlers groom their dogs every day for 

 a month beforehand, and this is why you always see show dogs with such 

 fine coats. 



