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do well if sound that is, if the animal died free of 

 disease, and not saturated with poisonous drugs, which 

 not a few horses whose carcases find their way to kennels 

 are. Of the three, lean mutton is to be preferred, as 

 being more readily digested. It should be prepared by 

 slow boiling ; the meat, having been first cut up small, 

 should be put into cold water; let the bones stew with it, 

 and when the meat is well cooked, remove them, and stir 

 in to each pound weight of raw flesh Jib. of rough oatmeal, 

 and, after that has boiled slowly half an hour, add ^lb. 

 of Spratts Patent Fibrine Cakes, broken small, and let 

 the whole continue to boil ten minutes longer ; that, if a 

 judicious quantity of water has been used (which experience 

 will soon teach), will make the entire mess a stiff pudding 

 when cold enough to feed. Some trainers now use almost 

 entirely Spratts Greyhound Biscuits, containing 50 per 

 cent, of meat, but I think a portion of fresh meat with 

 them preferable. 



I have no faith in the practice of doling out food by 

 weight. If a dog, despite all the work that can be given 

 him, gets too fleshy on the diet, reduce its quality rather 

 than its quantity ; but the cases are rare where increased 

 exercise will not do the business, by keeping fat off, and 

 that is what is wanted. 



On the other hand, if a dog is not doing well on the 

 food, and does not eat it freely, not to say greedily, after 

 he seems indisposed to feed more give him, in pieces, Lb. 

 to ilb. of raw lean mutton, with lOgrs. of Boudalt's or 

 Morson's Pepsin Porci on it, which is sold in loz. bottles, 

 with a measure, at 5s. 



There is no need to stick absolutely to the diet above 



