FOXHOUND AND HARRIER KENNELS, ETC. 229 



FOXHOUND AND HARRIER KENNELS, ETC. 



Unlike the greyhound kennel in many respects, that which we 

 are now considering must be adapted for from thirty to a hundred 

 couples of hounds, and the accommodation should therefore be more 

 extensive, while a less degree of protection from the weather is 

 desirable, because these hounds must be constantly exposed to 

 long- continued wind and wet, and should therefore be hardened to 

 them. The annexed description of the most desirable plan for 

 kennels is chiefly derived from " Scrutator," who is, I believe, 

 the most trustworthy as well as the most recent writer on the 

 subject. 



The kennel should be placed upon some high and dry situation ; 

 the building should face the south, and there should be no large 

 trees near it. To hunt three or four days a week, you will require 

 about forty couples of hounds according to the country. The 

 lodging-rooms should be four in number, by which you will have 

 a dry floor for the hounds to go on to every morning (the pack 

 in the hunting season being in two divisions), instead of its 

 being washed down whilst the hounds are left shivering in the 

 cold on a bleak winter's day, which I have seen done when the 

 himtsman has been too busy to walk them out during this 

 process. 



Nothing is more prejudicial to hounds than damp lodging- 

 rooms, a sure cause of rheumatism and mange, to which dogs are 

 peculiarly liable. I have seen them afiected by rheumatism 



