38 THE AIREDALE 



drive away the disturbers are regarded by the 

 unsympathetic neighbors as quite as bad as the 

 feline serenades and battle cries. No dog will 

 bark at night if he is in a dark, quiet place, and 

 the terrier in the backyard will sleep like a baby 

 if he is shut up in a box covered with burlap. 



The ideal terrier kennel is an oil barrel. 

 These cannot always be obtained, but any barrel 

 or keg intended to hold liquids, and so made water 

 tight, will answer. A hole, just large enough to 

 let the dog in and out, should be cut in one end. 

 Then the inside may be painted with kerosene and 

 a lighted paper dropped in. This cleans the bar- 

 rel and destroys any insects, and is an excellent 

 thing to do every month or so. 



The barrel ought to be painted inside and out, 

 and to keep it from rotting on the bottom must 

 be mounted on blocks so that it just clears the 

 ground. Rain can be kept out of the door either 

 by tacking a curtain of sacking over it (a dog 

 soon learns to go through this and it can be hung 

 up in good weather) or by making a roof of V 

 shaped planking, which sets over the barrel, pro- 

 jecting in front like the eaves of a barn. Two 

 small terriers or one Airedale can live easily in 

 these keg kennels in summer, with an extra dog 

 added, for warmth's sake, in cold weather. 



Another kennel that is fine for terriers is one 



