52 A MANUAL OF TOY DOGS 



thin little dog that nothing will fatten ; hardly ever 

 hungry, and dainty to the distraction of his owner ; a 

 dog who will not eat in a strange place or from an 

 unusual plate, and who only grows the thinner and 

 more miserable for what he does eat. He is an un- 

 enviable possession, but we must make the best of him, 

 coax him with small and frequent meals, for he will 

 often accept a teaspoonful of raw meat minced, or a 

 tablespoonful of cream, where he would not even look 

 at an ordinary dog's meal, and get him up as well as 

 we can for show with a daily new-laid egg, beaten up 

 in a very little milk, and that useful and valuable dog- 

 owner's aid, cod liver oil and malt. Most dogs will 

 take this with a little tempting meat to help it down. 

 Of course it must not be pushed at first, but given, 

 to begin with, in very small doses, and gradually in- 

 creased until our usefully typical 6 Ib. dog is taking a 

 full teaspoonful twice a day. It is a wonderful hair 

 producer. Cod liver oil alone, without the malt, is 

 of much less use, and cheap preparations of either or 

 both are to be sternly avoided ; in the nature of things, 

 such a medicine cannot be cheap, if it is to be thoroughly 

 good. And here, I may remark, that because we are 

 only dealing with a dog is no reason why we should 

 put cheap drugs of any kind into him. His system 

 is just as beautiful and delicate in its balance as that 

 of a human being, though his teeth and his digestion 

 may be stronger such is not invariably the case by 

 any means and the administration of impure or adul- 

 terated medicine is just as great a cruelty to it as to 

 the human machinery. To give a toy dog crude cod 

 liver oil, imperfectly purified, because it is cheap, is 

 like expecting to do fine carving upon oak with a hatchet, 

 because it is oak and not satin-wood. 



Internal Parasites. In no case has modern progress 

 in knowledge disclosed more fallacies, held formerly as 

 firm beliefs, than where the internal parasites which 

 for our present purpose, this being only a popular manual, 



