56 THE LATE DUKE OP RICHMOND. 



The Shepherd's Dog, Mastiff', Vermin Cur, Fox Cur, Draught Dog, Turnspit, 

 Bull Dog, Dalmatian, Italian Greyhound, French and German Lap-Dogs, 

 English Comforters, Dutch Pugs, Cur and Mongrel Varieties. 



The Dog, as well as the Horse, seems to have been unknown upon the Continent 

 of America, so long- as that immense Continent was unknown to Europe. The 

 Fox, past all question, naturally, if not scientifically, a member of the canine 

 genus, we presume must have been equally unknown. Dogs procreate in their 

 first year, and the bitch carries her young-, perhaps never, except accidentally, less 

 than SIXTY-TWO DAYS, but generally, a few days longer. She produces about- 

 half a dozen whelps ordinarily ; sometimes as many as a dozen, at others, only 

 two or three. In these respects, the dog and cat agree somewhat nearly. The 

 bitch in her season, is a general lover, and her taste, when small, for the largest 

 males she can find, often proves fatal to her and her offspring, producing death 

 instead of an increase of individual life. 



Of the common, or merely favourite breeds of dogs, the greater part or all the 

 puppies of the litters, should be gradually destroyed, since both Town and Country 

 are so overrun with useless, starving, and miserable curs ; and the same salutary 

 and humane rule should be observed, with respect to Cats. Litters of Sporting 

 and valuable Dogs should be culled, and the underling or ill-shaped whelps put 

 out of life, in which they cannot be wanted. The remainder, in order to confirm 

 and assure their worth, together with the bitch, should be kept perfectly dry, 

 warm and clean, and be well fed, and as much as possible, from the kitchen and 

 dairy. 



The Dog lives to twenty, or even twenty -five years of age, and his chief mala^ 

 dies are the DISTEMPER, the access of which is at a period of about his half 

 growth ; and MADNESS, for which there is no cure but death, and that remedy, 

 should, on every ground of commiseration and prudence, both for the brute and 

 human race, be administered on the first notice. Here a melancholy digression 

 forces itself upon us; the late loss of a personage of Ducal Rank and Royal 

 Lineage, but still more illustrious for the openness of his heart and his kind and 

 companiable qualities, and deriving additional lustre from a predecessor, the great 

 and distinguished advocate of human rights. Noble RICHMOND, farewell ! we 

 drop our tears upon your urn, and cherish your memory in our hearts. 



In the Distemper, the puppy should be kept dry and warm, and his food and 

 medicine should be of the cooling and aperient kind, at the same time, nourishing. 

 As to WORMING the puppy, as a preventive of the rabies or madness, it is merely 

 to make the poor animars tongue sore, in order to humour a groundless old 

 woman's whim. On this affair and various other particulars, which however 

 useful, it is impossible to enlarge in this AVork, we refer, once for all, to the 

 BRITISH FIELD SPORTS. The dog should have air, exercise and grass, and 

 particularly, if high fed and indulged, should be purged two or three times in the 



