KENNEL LAMENESS. 63 



die the result is not pleasant to contemplate. I 

 have been told that a hound, after suffering from 

 kennel lameness for one or two seasons, becomes 

 immune. This is hardly my experience, but I do 

 believe that after a hound has once thoroughly got 

 over the complaint he rarely contracts it again, 

 even if he goes back to his old kennels. One 

 harrier kennel in the West of England is built close 

 to a river, and when there is a flood the water rises 

 high enough to flow through the outer yards. The 

 hounds have never been known to suffer from kennel 

 lameness, and hounds so afflicted have been sent to 

 this very kennel, and have become perfectly sound ; 

 so surely the old damp theory can be dismissed, and 

 it should be noted that the soil on which these 

 kennels are built is clay. 



As 1 remarked a few lines back, it is well worth 

 the attention of masters of hounds, who contemplate 

 building new kennels, to study the nature of the soil 

 they propose erecting them on. My advice is to 

 avoid porous soils, and, if possible, to choose a clay 

 one. A belt of larch to break the North and East 

 winds is certainly to be recommended, but do not 

 leave any large timber trees standing in the 

 immediate vicinitv of the kennels. 



