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 to tiling them to eat it : but it must be in some cases 

 by grcat determination and perseverance. If the 

 usual quantity of meat a dog eats is minced extreme- 

 ly fine, and a small portion of maslied potatoes is 

 mixed witli it, it is not possible for the dog to sepa- 

 l-ate them, rf he will not eat the mixture, let it 

 remain till hunsjer obliijes him. The next meal a 

 very small additional quantity of potatoes may be 

 added, and which practice, if persisted in, will bring 

 tlie animal at last to live wholly on potatoes, or any 

 other vegetable that mav be chused. The cases that 

 make a change from a ir.eat to a vegetable diet are 

 Tery numerous : in all cases of mange, or of any 

 other affection arising from too full living, in coughs, 

 and various other complaints, this change is esseu- 

 tially necessary to the health of the dog. 



Carrots, parsnips, cabbages, and, in fact, all ve- 

 getable matter, v.ill feed dogs. Damaged ship bis- 

 cuit is often bought for tliis purpose, and it makes 

 a most excellent food when soaked in broth or nnlk ; 

 but broth is preferable. It is, however, necessary for 

 me here to introduce one caution, v\hich is, that the 

 broth or liquor in which salted meat has been boiled 

 should ne^er be used. Most dogs who have come 

 a long vovage have a very bad kind of mange, 

 owin^ to their beins: fed on salt nct-iiauor. This is 

 not sufficiently attended to among sportsmen, and 

 their servants constantly give the liquor in which 

 salt pork and bacon have been boiled, with other 

 brine, to the great injury of the animals. 



Greaves are also, \\ ith many, a common food : 

 these are the residue from tallov/, wiiich, being hard 

 pressed and dried, become the large, hard, heavy 



