MANAGEMENT OF THE DOG. 



The dog is the most domestic of all animals, and is a very- 

 agreeable companion and willing servant to man. If he is abused 

 and ill-treated, he will be likely to become a nuisance. He is so 

 close a companion of mankind, that it becomes a very important 

 duty of his master to understand how to train and educate him 

 properly. If he is well and skillfully trained he will reflect great 

 credit upon his master, and become an agreeable member of his 

 household as well as a useful assistant. There are various kinds 

 of dogs and various methods of training them ; of course I will 

 not undertake in this work (being devoted principally to the 

 horse), to describe more than a few of the varieties of dogs — 

 those only that are best known — and neither can I devote much 

 space to their training, only giving the rules by which a person 

 with patience, perseverance, firmness and kindness can train the 

 dog to perform various useful and pleasing tricks. We will give 

 a sufficient number to lead # the operator to the teaching of many 

 more. Of course the dog is as varied in his dispositions and 

 temperaments as there are different kinds of dogs. 



I will here mention, by way of illustration, that the bloodhound 

 will follow the trail of man or beast for miles, over all kinds of 

 ground and almost under all circumstances, even many hours 

 after the object of his search has taken his departure, and suc- 

 cessfully find him by the scent alone. His sense of smell is so 

 highly developed, naturally, that he requires no training what- 

 ever to teach him to accomplish this, for he is simply following 



