REARING PUPPIES. 



WE receive many letters from different sections of the 

 country complaining of want of success in raising 

 puppies. Nearly all of them state that the writers have 

 taken great pains with the animals and given them the best 

 of care, but in spite of their efforts they sicken and die and, 

 in many instances, entire litters are lost. 



We have often thought that perhaps the great mortality 

 complained of is owing in a great measure to this constant 

 care and delicate nursing that anxious breeders bestow upon 

 their pets. Who ever heard of a litter of mongrels that no 

 one cared for meeting an untimely end ? This we believe to 

 be the key note of the whole matter, and that in order to be 

 a successful breeder you must banish all fear for the lives 

 and health of the youngsters, and let them shirk for them- 

 selves, and above all else give them no drugs or medicines of 

 any description, for we are well satisfied that ten puppies 

 are killed by dosing where one is benefited, and that the sur- 

 vivor is often ruined for long continued work by the injury 

 thus wrought. 



Now, we do not wish this to be construed as meaning that 

 we are opposed to giving medicine at all times, for we are 

 well aware that properly administered, much suffering is 

 alleviated, and many valuable lives are saved, but we do 

 firmly believe that the ailments of puppyhood should be left 

 entirely alone, and that nature, if untrammelled, will effect 

 ten times the cures that can be accomplished by the use of 

 drugs, especially as administered by the breeders throughout 

 the country who have no practical knowledge of their deadly 

 effects, nor of the proper time nor remedy tc apply in a very 

 large majority of cases that come before them", but anxious 

 to do everything in their power to save their darlings, and 



