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medicine does good, and whilst the dog is at 

 rest a light diet should be given. 



Feeding : 



Dogs require concentrated food, and to keep 

 a dog in the best condition, meat should form 

 half his diet. 



Taking first the toy breeds. When puppies 

 are weaned, it must be remembered that the 

 mother's milk is far stronger than cows' 

 milk, and when possible, goats' milk should be 

 given ; cows' milk thickened with Plasmon is a 

 good substitute. The mother should be allowed 

 to feed her puppies during the night in the initial 

 stages of weaning. 



At five weeks old, puppies should be given a 

 little scraped raw meat — very small quantities, 

 a small eggspoonful once a day — and they should 

 be treated for worms. As they get stronger, 

 and are entirely weaned (at six to seven weeks), 

 Benger's food, a little rusk and broth, rusk and 

 milk, and scraped raw meat, can be given alter- 

 nately four times a day in small quantities. 

 Directly the teeth begin to come through, one 

 of Spratt's invalid biscuits should be given them 

 to amuse themselves with. At four months old, 

 the meals should be reduced to three in number, 

 say, stale brown bread and milk in the morning, 

 raw meat, or cooked meat, and stale bread in the 

 middle of the day, and some puppy biscuit at 

 night. At six months old, two meals a day will 

 be sufficient, consisting of dry biscuit in the 

 middle of the day, and at night a raw meat meal, 

 twice a week ; on other days, fine Rodnim or 



