REARING PUPPIES. 



Home Rearing " Trencher Feeding " Kennels Foods and 

 Feeding Sloppy Foods a Mistake Exercise Puppy 

 Troubles : Teething, Worms, External Parasites, Distemper 

 Remedies Saplings Training of Saplings. 



WE have our choice between home rearing and sending 

 pups out "to walk." The latter plan is very general in 

 the case of Foxhounds, and pups so brought up are termed 

 "trencher fed." 



The decision must depend much on the room at command ; 

 but in favour of isolated rearing there is the strong argu- 

 ment, so well established by experience, that very large 

 numbers of the young of animals cannot generally be reared 

 together with safety to health. On the other hand, it is 

 not easy to get young dogs placed in the hands of persons 

 at once careful and judicious. Risks, however, must be 

 run in either case. 



Where the number of puppies to be raised is not very 

 great, or where puppy kennels of a temporary character 

 can be distributed at distances affording personal super- 

 vision over all by the man responsible, I am of opinion 

 that home rearing has the weight of solid reasons in its 



