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meal, toasted stale bread and milk; 2nd, oatmeal 

 and meat broth with a little finely chopped meat ; 

 3d, puppy biscuits such as the maltoid puppy 

 *' bones"; 4th, bread and milk; 5th, oatmeal and 

 meat broth, liver; 6th, a httle raw meat scraped 

 fine and some puppy biscuit ''bones" to play with. 

 The dam should have a shelf or other high place 

 to lie down on, in sight of the pups, for they will 

 try to follow her around and get chilled or lost if 

 she goes away and yet she must get more and more 

 rest at this time while her milk is slowly drying up. 



At two months the pups are completely weaned 

 and ready to sell, which brings us back to the be- 

 ginning of this dissertation. Earlier than this it 

 is not safe to take them away from the dam ; later, 

 they cost the kennelman an unnecessary feeding 

 bill, which must surely appear in the price asked 

 for the puppy. For an owner two months is a 

 good age ; eight months is better, and a year and 

 two months is the ideal age to buy. 



For some time I tried to buy first-class pups a 

 year old and over distemper. "There ain't no 

 sech animile"; all the best of every litter have 

 been sold by that time, and you will either get a 

 runt or one with some defect which every one else 

 has seen and avoided. I have come to depend 

 upon Pasteur's serum to protect my pups during 



