PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 



THIS little book, in its earlier editions, met with so 

 uniformly kind and gracious a reception, that I am 

 encouraged to hope it may still make new friends on this, 

 its third appearance. It has given me the greatest 

 pleasure to hear from correspondents in many countries 

 that they have found it as helpful as I hoped a manual 

 drawn entirely from actual personal experience might 

 prove to be. 



In the years which have elapsed since I first wrote 

 upon dogs, there has been a wonderful advance in 

 veterinary science and practice. Operative surgery 

 under anaesthetics has become nearly as confident in 

 relieving our pets as in abating our own miseries. 

 Much disease, however, is still present among dogs for 

 which there is no warrant in Nature, and which might 

 be entirely conquered in the course of a few generations, 

 could the prejudice against natural and rational diet 

 be completely abandoned. To persuade dog-owners 

 to give meat-feeding a trial one honest experiment 

 has never in my experience failed to convince the most 

 sceptical has been my constant endeavour, and I 

 cannot let the " Toy Dog Manual " go forth on another 

 journey without once more laying emphasis on the fact 



