222 PULSE — PUPPING. 



Pulse. 



From the greater irritability of lesser animals compared^ 

 with the larg-er, and the extreme quickness of their circula- 

 tion, the motions of the heart and arteries do not present such 

 exact criteria of health and disease as they do in the horse and 

 other larg-e animals. Nevertheless, the action of the heart, and 

 the pulsations of the larger arteries, maybe felt with propriety 

 in many cases, and will serve as some guide to ascertain the 

 degree of disease. The pulsations will not only be increased 

 in quickness, but they will present a vibratory feel in violent 

 inflammatory affections. In inflammations of the lungs they 

 will be very quick and small, but will increase in fulness as 

 the blood flows during bleeding. Something like the same 

 will occur, but not in an equal degree, in inflammations of the 

 stomach and bowels also. As the pulsatory motions, there- 

 fore, are not so distinct in the dog as they are in larger ani- 

 mals ; so, in general, the state of the breathing, which, in 

 most cases, is regulated by the circulation, may be principally 

 attended to as a mark of greater or less inflammatory action. 

 When a dog, therefore, pants violently, his circulation, or in 

 other words his pulse, may be considered as quickened. 



Pupping. 



Great numbers of dogs die every year in bringing forth 

 their young. A life of art has brought the human curse upon 

 them, and they seem, in common with their female owners, to 

 be doomed to bring forth in sorrow and pain. 



When bitches are at heat, care should be taken to prevent 

 their intercourse with dogs much larger than themselves; 

 otherwise the size of the father influencing the size of the 

 progeny, they become disproportionate to the parts of the 

 mother, and she cannot bring them into the world.— /See 



