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kept as pets, even though they be in no way- 

 remarkable on account of size. 



If anything happens to the bitch, and she is 

 unable to rear her puppies, either a foster-parent 

 must be found (and a cat will rear a small pup 

 very tenderly), or the litter must in part be 

 brought up by hand. 



This last is more troublesome than difficult 

 to do. The pups want to be fed early and 

 late, consequently they must be taken into the 

 bedroom ; and when the feeding - time arrives, 

 the soundest sleeper will be reminded of his 

 duty. A bottle, such as is used for infants of 

 the human kind, must have a sort of nipple 

 made of wash-leather fitted to it. The leather 

 is to be pricked all over with a fine needle, and 

 within it is to be placed a small piece of sponge 

 to give substance and form to it. There is need 

 to do that, because the pup, when it sucks, wraps 

 the tongue round the teat, and unless the body 

 it thus grasps has bulk, it cannot extract the 

 liquid. This, therefore, being attended to, the 

 little creatures very soon learn their lesson, and 

 all that is subsequently to be done will be to 

 hold them to the bottle and the bottle to them. 

 Each pup occupies from ten to fifteen minutes at 

 a meal ; and they may be allowed to decide the 

 quantity that will do them good, unless one 

 should obviously be morbidly gluttonous, when 

 the indulgence of its appetite should be 

 restrained. 



The best food for such young puppies is to 

 give artificially prepared bitches' milk, made by 



