396 WALKING FOXHOUND PUPPIES. 



to dump down his cartload of puppies on any people 

 who will consent to take them, is not only akin to 

 cadging, but is also productive of many cases of 

 neglect which ought to come before the notice of the 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 

 Instead of deputing servants to dispose of young 

 hounds in this casual manner, the Master or his 

 Secretary should approach the residents of the district, 

 and either personally, or by writing, arrange with them 

 to walk puppies, so that they may be prepared to 

 receive their young charges. Also, the Master or 

 Secretary should visit the puppies at walk occasionally, 

 as such practical interest taken in their welfare, would 

 tend to encourage the walker in her by no means easy 

 task of rearing the youngsters. 



Mr. Otho Paget's advice as to prize giving and 

 a sumptuous lunch hardly, I think, meets the require- 

 ments of the case. We can dismiss the lunch, as very 

 few of my sex care for "smart and festive" feeding, 

 and as far as the prizes go for their trouble and expense 

 with the animals, what is the use of judging puppies 

 six months after they have returned from walk ? The 

 poor, neglected, half-starved animal who goes back to 

 kennels all skin and bone may, if he be a well-shaped 

 hound, show up better at the time of judging, than 

 those who were returned full of good food and in hard 

 exercise, but who may have lost in condition by fretting, 

 or by having to live on shorter rations than before. 

 Some puppies, as I know from experience, have 

 either died during the six months' interval, or have 



