CHAPTER XV 



POISONS, AND WHAT TO DO IN CASES OF 

 POISONING 



Hounds, like all other dogs, are liable to suffer from 

 the effects of various irritants of a chemical nature, 

 either accidentally picked up about the streets or 

 premises where poison has been laid down for the 

 destruction of small vermin, as rats, etc., whereas 

 in other cases the poisonous substance has been laid 

 down with mischievous intent. Both foxes and 

 Foxhounds are occasionally destroyed through some 

 malevolent act shown towards the keeper, or to the 

 kennel huntsman, about which there is generally 

 a difficulty in bringing the miscreant to justice. 

 The perpetrator of such acts has, obviously, some 

 grievance that he wishes redressed, and seeks to do 

 so at the expense of the keeper's charge. In the 

 majority of cases of poisoning of this nature strych- 

 nine is the drug used, but the writer has known such 

 substances as Cooper's sheep dipping to be employed, 

 which principally consists of arsenic. If more strin- 

 gent measures were adopted regarding the sale of 



this and other poisonous dips the better for the 



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