44 A MANUAL OF TOY DOGS 



tion that the meat-fed puppies will be found a good deal 

 less objectionable in the house before their education 

 begins, and infinitely easier to train, than their brethren 

 on farinaceous diet. 



In cases of anaemia, as shown by skin trouble, bare- 

 ness round the eyes, poor or capricious appetite, lan- 

 guor, unpleasant breath, thinness, and a general look 

 of unthriftiness, a liberal meat diet is the first essential, 

 and plenty of fresh air not necessarily hard exercise, 

 for which the patient is generally unfit the next. 

 A tonic is always desirable, and iron the most suitable. 

 There are several forms of this useful drug. Reduced 

 iron can be given in very small dosage ; sulphate of iron 

 is cheap and useful in pill form : both of these have a 

 tendency to constipate. The saccharated carbonate 

 of iron is a beautiful preparation that does not con- 

 stipate is, indeed, a little laxative in action. It is 

 a powder, tasteless except for sweetness, and will be 

 taken readily enough if sprinkled on meat, or it can be 

 made into pills with the addition of a tonic bitter, as in 

 the form of the Kanofelin tonic pills. It is the most 

 expensive of the forms of iron, but that is not saying 

 much, as all are absurdly low in price. The dose for 

 a toy is from two to four grains twice a day, in, or imme- 

 diately after, food. Cod liver oil is a useful medicine 

 in bad cases of anaemia, especially where, by reason of 

 having or having inherited, this habit of body, a long- 

 haired toy is always poor in coat. Some dogs never 

 grow coats, merely because they have not the strength 

 to do so, and others inherit sparseness of hair. But 

 if there is any hair in reserve, a course of cod liver oil 

 will help it on, and better far than plain cod liver oil 

 is its preparation with malt. Cheap cod liver oil, how- 

 ever, is horrid, and should never be given. It will only 

 act as a purgative, and be worse than useless. Nor 

 should a dog ever be forced to take this substance if 

 he has a dislike to it. But if the anaemic, scantily- 

 coated patient will take it readily, a teaspoonful of some 

 good brand of cod liver oil and malt extract, besides 



