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the masticating animals do. His is a feeling of 

 emptiness, and when able he gulps his food, fills his 

 stomach and, when he can do so, retires to a secluded 

 spot to rest. It may be interpolated also that, in pro- 

 portion to the size of the body, the canine family 

 have the largest stomachs of any known species of 

 animals. 



"Critical persons need not think we have any ref- 

 erence to the receptive stomach of the ruminants; 

 we mean the digestive stomach. 



"The dog's natural food is meat, and to avoid giv- 

 ing them a strong odor we should cook it. Meal and 

 starchy food is an abomination, and totally unfit for 

 dogs, even the most delicate, though all the bigoted 

 ignorance of all the dog men from time to eternity 

 assert the contrary. The dog can live on the stuff, I 

 admit, but it finds no organs for its preparation or 

 digestion until it has passed through the stomach 

 into the intestines. He has no grinders to prepare it 

 in the mouth, and if he had he gulps it without chew- 

 ing; his salivary glands are rudimentary, hence he 

 has no means whatever of turning starchy food into 

 sugar and dextrine, which fit them for nourishment, 

 as ruminants have. Starchy food is not acted upon 



