8 KENNELLING 



Certainly an isolation hospital is a most desirable 

 adjunct, for not only can it be used to receive sick 

 animals, but dogs coming home from a show can 

 there be segregated until they have been thoroughly 

 disinfected. If this were done in every case we 

 should have far fewer outbreaks of distemper. It 

 is also necessary to remember that puppies born 

 during the cold weather can never thrive properly 

 unless they have considerable warmth 7oFah. 

 should be regarded as the minimum. My own 

 experience has been that nothing can beat a small 

 anthracite stove for providing artificial heat ; the 

 preliminary cost is not large, and the fire can be 

 maintained with a minimum of trouble at an 

 equable temperature. The fuel is expensive, varying 

 in cost from 353. to 423. a ton, but it is so slow 

 of combustion that in the long run the outlay comes 

 to much less than for ordinary coal with an open 

 fireplace. Moreover, there is no danger of the fire 

 going out during the night so long as it is made up 

 some time in the course of the evening. One of these 

 stoves should be in the hospital and another in the 

 puppy quarters, and they will well repay one in the 

 number of lives saved. I need scarcely add that 

 ample ventilation should be provided in every 

 instance, for fresh air is of the utmost importance 

 if we would keep our charges in good health. A 

 large run is a necessary complement to every range of 

 kennels, and the more roomy it is the better. With 

 regard to the situation of the kennels, it is desirable 

 that they should face the warmest points of the com- 

 pass, damp and absence of sunshine being most 

 inimical, and the soil should be dry. Old Turber- 

 vile wrote much good sense upon this subject, 



