CHAPTER IV. 



Kennel Lameness. 



To fully realise and understand what kennel 

 lameness means in its worst form, one must have 

 had the misfortune to possess kennels in which 

 hounds have contracted it. To both masters and 

 huntsmen whose hounds have never been aflflicted 

 with the scourge of kennel lameness these remarks 

 may appear to be of little use. 



There is one undisputed fact in connection with 

 this disease, and it is this : It is not contagious 

 from one hound to another, but is contracted direct 

 from the kennels and their surroundings to the 



hound. 



My first kennels were built on land with a chalk 

 subsoil, and after hounds had been kennelled there 

 for two or three seasons they began to suffer from 

 kennel lameness in a very severe form. 



One season things got to such a pitch that there 

 was hardly a really sound hound in the kennel. I 

 cured several during that season by placing them 

 out at farms for nine or ten weeks at a stretch, and 



