Management of War Dog School j?a 



be given, as the hard food is good for the dogs' teeth ; but 

 this should not be given often, as most dogs do nol relish 



it, and do not eat enough. 



It is highly necessary that all the dogs, especially tip- 

 running dogs, should be well nourished. At the end of 

 their training, under proper conditions, and when the work 

 is not too much hurried, each dog should be fairly stout, 

 but not fat, and with well-developed muscles. It will 

 understood that when once the fact of the necessity of the 

 dogs was established, great pressure was brought that d 

 should be turned out as rapidly as possible, and therefore 

 the question of getting them quickly into fit, hard condi- 

 tion, under which they could profit by their training, was 

 a very anxious and difficult one. I certainly found, that 

 the most rapid and successful results were obtained by 

 keeping the food and warmth question to the forefront, in 

 dealing with the young recruits, and keeping a strong contn »1 

 over all methods of dosing and doctoring. In training the 

 permanent staff of the War Dog School, most of whom v. 

 selected from among gamekeepers and hunt servants, I 

 had, in every case, to impress this form of treatment very 

 firmly, as it is a curious fact, that the usual method of 

 treating a new acquirement in the dog line, is to imme- 

 diately begin to doctor it in some form or other. I. 

 expert has an infallible nostrum of his own. This ten- 

 dency must be severely repressed, on behalf of the victim 

 —the dog. It may be said, that the kennel, where tl 

 is a large, and very complete, much-used medicine chi 

 is badly managed, and the expert who can show -ty 

 medicine shelves, is much more likely to have healthy, 

 happy dogs. I may say, also, that those men who tin 

 out the best keepers in the school, very soon came to 5 



that the results obtained, by not treating the d • .1 - 



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