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istering a mild dose of medicine a few days 

 before she is due, but we have always found 

 that a little extra fat in the soup answers just 

 as well. We have been very fortunate, never 

 having any serious trouble with any of our 

 mother dogs, and I think perhaps it is due to 

 the fact that they have a varied diet and free 

 range, so that they can take what exercise they 

 like. What is more, we make companions of 

 them, and they are contented and happy. 



The ordinary method of keeping breeding 

 dogs in kennels, confined in small enclosures, 

 seems to me most reprehensible, for there is 

 nothing to interest them or keep them occu- 

 pied, except, of course, in the case of terriers, 

 who can find or make excitement about any- 

 thing or nothing more important than the fall- 

 ing of a leaf. 



We did have one collie, whose appetite al- 

 ways failed during the last few days, and 

 whose puppies came at long intervals. The 

 only trouble was to keep up her strength, 

 and that we did by beating up the yolk of 



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