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turned them out, providing them with dry, 

 draft-proof, but unheated shelters in which to 

 sleep and where they could escape very bad 

 weather. 



My own experience has proved to me that wire 

 coated terriers are worlds better off for being out 

 every day and night in the year. Even in the 

 severest weather they do not need artificial heat, 

 if they have a perfectly dry, draftless, well bedded 

 place to sleep in and to serve as a shelter on very 

 wet, stormy days. A decent kennel for any dog 

 from a St. Bernard to a Pomeranian is dry and 

 draft-proof, and so the terrier owner can elimi- 

 nate the question of artificial heating. 



The man who lives in the city should try to 

 keep his dog out in the yard as much as possible, 

 and, if at all feasible, let him sleep there. Dogs 

 have an inborn instinct to " bay the moon " and 

 terriers are supposed to be great talkers. More- 

 over, city backyards, since the days when town 

 residences were hollow stone piles lined with hides 

 to keep the wind out, have always been a favorite 

 rendezvous for Thomas Catt, Esq., and Mistress 

 Tabby, meetings just as hard on the nerves of a 

 self respecting terrier as they are on those of his 

 sleepy master. The trouble is that, while master 

 becomes a public benefactor by hurling his shav- 

 ing mug out the window, the efforts of his dog to 



