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 is very common with sporting clogs, and it is also com- 

 mon with dogs coming from on board ship. 



To lay down any general rule as to the quantity of 

 exercise proper, is impossible. In fat dogs it should 

 not be violent, but it should be long continueil : when 

 it is too violent, it is apt to produce cough, and, in 

 the end, is the parent of asthma ; it likewise occasions 

 fits in many histances. Sporting dogs require gallops 

 to fit them for their work, and to give them wind ; 

 and for this purpose they should be taught to follow 

 a horse. 



Lesser dogs, for the purpose of health, require at 

 least two hours' exercise every day. 



FATNESS EXCESSIVE. 



This is a most common complaint among dogs. A 

 proper plumpness of appearance denotes health ; but, 

 when the animal oil, called fat, becomes inordinately 

 disproportionate to the rest of the component parts of 

 the body, it is then a source of numerous diseases, many 

 of them fatal: hence a very great nuinber of dogs 

 die of mere fat. Any dog may be made fat by 

 excessive feeding and but little exercise. Provided 

 this has been done in a hurry, the dog may be 

 reduced to his former state without prejudice ; but, 

 when a dog gradually accumulates fat from indul- 

 gence, then it becomes so completely a disease, that 

 even exercise and abstinence will not reduce him ; for 

 the generation of fat is so habitual a work of the con- 

 stitution, that, however little the animal takes, that 

 little turns to fat : it is thus that it is very usual for 

 fat dogs to eat but little. 



