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and meat in the following way. The meat stock 

 is boiled over night in a kettle and the unstrained 

 soup is used instead of water with the meal in 

 making dough, which is put in pans of two or 

 three inches in thickness and baked in a slow 

 oven till hard all the way through. This will 

 take a day. These cakes are rich and should 

 not be fed too often, but they can be kept a 

 month, and I never saw a terrier that did not 

 relish them. In summer, fish boiled twenty-four 

 hours, till the bones are all soft, makes a nice 

 change from the meat soups of the winter. 



There are many who might be called canine 

 vegetarians, but experimenting has convinced me 

 that meat is the best and most natural food for 

 the dog. Sirloin does cost a lot of money these 

 days, but hearts, lungs, heads, odds and ends of 

 ribs, and shank bones do not cost so much, and 

 you can always make arrangements with a butcher 

 to save you these. Under no circumstances feed 

 meat that is decayed. It does not have to be as 

 fresh as you demand for your own table, if you 

 take care to cook it thoroughly, but meat that 

 is mouldy or rotting is poison, not food. 



Most kennels feed twice a day, a light lunch 

 in the morning and the regular day's feed in the 

 evening. The morning bite can be bread or bis- 

 cuits with a little soup over them. The evening 



