66 THE GREYHOUND. 



In addition to the biscuits, which should be given both 

 dry and soaked with or boiled in broth, oatmeal, well 

 boiled with milk or broth and a little fat, is good. Indian 

 corn meal and barley meal may be mixed with the oat- 

 meal, but sparingly; and the occasional addition to the 

 food of boiled turnips, carrots, cabbage, or other green 

 vegetables, is beneficial. Flesh is a necessity to the dog as 

 a carnivorous animal. 



Where the pups have to be confined to the kennel run 

 for the most part, they must be regularly taken out to the 

 fields and there encouraged to race about ; but until they 

 get to seven or eight months old they should not be 

 taken any great distance, and never such as would over- 

 tire them. 



Young Greyhounds are, perhaps, the most ungainly of 

 dogs, and often the legs look thick and clumsy, the joints 

 being large and prominent. That is no bad sign ; but as 

 these bones are yet soft, and scarcely out of the state of 

 gristle, exercise must be given with judgment, according 

 to individual development. 



It is the object of breeders of animals of whatever kind 

 to secure the growth of the young without check. This 

 they cannot, however, always succeed in. There are various 

 troubles incident to young life that throw puppies back, 

 and foremost among these is teething, during the period 

 of the irruption of the permanent canines, or fangs, and 

 the molars, or double teeth that is, from about four to 

 six months old. During this process of Nature the whelp 

 often suffers from feverishness, loss of appetite, and purging. 

 A small dose about a dessert-spoonful of castor oil and 

 syrup of buckthorn every other morning for a week, and 



