CARE AND BREEDING. 119 



keep a dog .healthy than to cure him after he has 

 become diseased. In warm weather I use no 

 bedding as it is only a harbor for vermin. 



The best place by far, to keep your dogs, is 

 in a park, wliere there is shade in summer, with 

 running water, and slope enough to the land, to 

 allow it to be well washed wheneyer it rains. 

 Then provide drj^, comfortable quarters to sleep, 

 and you have an ideal home for dogs. In case 

 you cannot have a place of this kind nor even 

 a small park, aud must keep jour dog chained, 

 attach a good heavy Avire to the dog house and 

 the other end to a tree, where your dog can get 

 to a shade if possible; then attach a chain to 

 the wire so your dog can travel along the wire ; 

 but be sure that he cannot get tangled n^ and 

 have to lay out some wet night 



Some are situated far better than others for 

 taking care of dogs and I am sorry to say there 

 is an occasional sportsman (or at least he owns 

 a dog or two), who is inclined to let his dogs 

 shift for tliemselves. I pity the dog that is un- 

 fortunate enough to have such an owner. 



My experience is that too much meat is not 

 good for the foxhound, and if they get a mess of 

 old stale meat just before you want to run them, 

 the chances are that they can't make the race. 

 I have seen good dogs that couldn't run an hour, 

 simply because they were filled up with old dead 



