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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



Young dogs should be given much milk, with their work. Horse flesh, beef, and mutton 



or without water, and sometimes a little whey, are good for them, provided the meat is fresh 



What is left fmm the table or from restaurant and not fat. In the great kennels broth is 



dinners, like moistened crusts, sour potatoes, often made of calves' heads and feet. Rice 



the skins and heads of fish, and such things as 

 we hear people say, " Oh ! the dog will eat 

 that," are certainly swallowed by him, 

 but the results are diseases 

 the skin or of the intestines 

 ulcers in the throat, and 

 bills from veterinaries 

 If a dog will not eat 

 potatoes without sauce, 

 give him no food until 

 his stomach begins tn 

 crave it. Al- r 

 ways give a 

 dog less than 

 his stomach , 

 demands. To j 

 be kept in ,^,„„,, 

 good health a 



dog should never turn from his plate till he has their own bony structure ; they bury a bone to 

 licked it clean with pleasure. When he leaves make it tender, but it sometimes happens that 

 any food upon it, it is a sign that he has eaten a hard bone is thrown to a puppy, and this is 

 too much. Two meals a day are sufficient, — always injurious. What the dog needs to find 

 one cold in the morning, and the other hike- now and then on his diet list is grass — just 



warm in the afternoon. T'ii| li nil m ' 'I ' "<>i|^' ^^B^ ' " g'rass. He often goes in 



be fed three or four times 

 a day, and they ought to ^, ' 

 have twice as much 

 milk as vegetables 



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is an excellent food, and mixed with codfish is 

 a favorite winter food for dogs that are not 

 pampered. From time to time a little 

 cod-li\'er oil (which can be ob- 

 tained in biscuit form) puri- 

 fies the blood and gives 

 a luster to the coat. 

 Over the food of young 

 dogs and those nearly 

 adult a pinch of phos- 

 ]ihated lime or pure 

 b (1 n e d u s t 

 should be scat- 

 tered. Dogs 

 like to gnaw 

 tender bones, 

 which help to 



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Strengthen 



Food should nevei 

 be hot, for a dog 

 dislikes as much ^ 

 as a man to burn 

 his tongue, but he 

 is not cautious 

 enough to refrain 

 from gulping down a half 

 boiling mess. 



Every dog, being born carniv- 

 orous, ought to have meat ; but 

 it is impossible to fix the exact 



search of it himself, and eats 

 ■ it like a famished cow. 



Once a month he must 

 1 le made to take a 

 vermifuge mixed 

 with his milk and 

 given preferably 

 j when he is fasting 

 A vermifuge in bis- 

 ( uit form, a teaspoon- 

 ful of calomel, or any of 

 J ^j.'^' the vermifuges ad\-ertised 

 m the papers do good service 

 when the ailment is merely earth- 

 worms, wdth which nearly all dogs 

 are troubled, just as they are by 

 quantity he should receive without considering threadworms. Visible emaciation and the rub- 

 his form and the conditions under which he bing of the hind parts on the ground show the 

 lives. Draft dogs and hounds which hunt and presence of these mischief-makers. But dogs 

 course ought to have meat in proportion to can have other species of worms that may be 



A Doc, olHiHl" TO K-Al Willi 



Pleasure 



