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either sex should have a cosy little basket kennel, with 

 a door, which it can use at home as a sleeping-place, 

 and in which it can travel ; the basket can be fitted 

 with an outer case of wood for greater security, but the 

 dog will stand the journey much better if it is in a 

 familiar basket. Something with a peaked or rounded 

 top should be chosen ; the ventilation being safer in 

 this, as flat-sided and flat-topped packages may be so 



GRIFFON BRUXELLOIS. 



" Sparklets" the property of Miss Johnson* 



crowded upon with others in a guard's van as to suffo- 

 cate the inmate. 



The usual period of willingness to breed in a toy 

 bitch is, more or less, one week. This is preceded by 

 about a fortnight's preparation, a week or so of gradual 

 enlargement of the parts concerned, and a week of a 

 coloured discharge from the uterus and vagina. Either 

 or all of the stages may last a longer or shorter time ; 

 but three weeks is generally accepted as the period. 

 No attempt at mating the bitch should be made during 

 the first two stages ; it is when the discharge begins to 

 cease that she is ready, and the correct judging of this 



