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wholesome sleeping places are as necessary to the 

 good health of the dog as they are to the good health 

 of his master. Exercise, in fact, is more essential to 

 the dog, for when he becomes fat his powers quickly 

 degenerate. He then becomes indolent, deficient in 

 stamina and predisposed to disease. With some 

 dogs it is a matter of great difficulty to work off the 

 fat, as they either will not or cannot work enough to 

 reduce it other than by very slow degrees. 



The food of the dog is worthy of much greater 

 consideration than is commonly given to it. The 

 table scraps of some families make quite good food, 

 while those of other families cease to be food at all 

 for any animal. There is quite a remove between 

 scraps of good beef, bread, vegetables, etc., on the one 

 hand, and potato skins on the other ; that is to say, 

 table scraps, to be of food value, must have food con- 

 stituents. 



Sheeps' heads, tripe, mutton, beef, roasted rare or 

 boiled with cabbage, turnips and onions, etc., make 

 an excellent food. Corn-meal or any other purely 

 vegetable food is unfit for the dog. He will live a 

 shorter time, grow old younger and cease to be a 

 working dog at an earlier age than he will on any 



