The Dog in the House 39 



internal doors it is double and slides (as do nearly all of them), so that no 

 matter if a dog gets loose, it is confined to the one room. Passing through 

 the doorway we enter the first of the kennel rooms. Here a door facing 

 leads to another long kennel, while one to the left-hand admits to the rainy- 

 day, covered exercise-yard. The door in the left-hand corner gives access 

 to a room at the back of the office for the use of the men. One cannot help 

 noticing the perfect floor of narrow, light-coloured wood, which is scrupu- 

 lously clean and as perfectly fitted as a piece of cabinet work. 



The inside fittings of this room resemble nothing more closely than 

 the lockers of a rowing or athletic club with wire-fronted doors for ventila- 

 tion and drying purposes. Each of these lockers or stalls is divided from 

 its neighbours by a matched-board partition, and they are mainly thirty-six 

 inches deep by twenty-six inches wide, though a few are slightly larger. 

 They are meant to accommodate one dog, although two are put together 

 when there is a lack of space. The bottom of the stall is about eighteen 

 inches from the floor — a height convenient enough for terriers, as they can 

 jump it without trouble. If you take out the straw you will find that the 

 removable bottom is not tight, but has spaces between the narrow strips. 

 The object of this is to allow whatever dirt the dog takes into his kennel to 

 sift through the straw and these spaces to the floor, so as to form no breeding- 

 place for vermin of any kind. It will be noted also from the photographs 

 that the fronts of these stalls do not go down to the floor, but are so arranged 

 that by the removal of a board at the bottom the floor can be swept as often 

 as may be necessary to remove such dirt as sifts through the spaced floors of 

 the stalls. 



The farther kennel is in part the same, but it is meant for larger and 

 heavier dogs, and more conventional in having a bench and floor space. 

 Here also we find the same excellent flooring that can be thoroughly cleaned 

 and allows of no lodgment of dust or dirt. Disinfectants are used but little, 

 reliance being placed upon the frequent washing and scrubbing with dis- 

 infecting soft soap and hot water, and upon good ventilation. The latter 

 is secured by having a strip of swinging-windows running the entire length 

 of the kennel and opening at the ceiling, so that all the foul, heated air is 

 liberated when the windows are opened. 



The method of exercising is as follows: When the men turn out at 

 seven o'clock, the dogs are sent into one of two adjacent acre-fields, and it 

 is surprising how many terriers are thus allowed at liberty together at this 



