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than they do in their own quarters, and if it be kept 

 there, particularly when two or more inmates are 

 together, it is almost sure to be upset, and make the 

 place look bad, besides being uncomfortable. 



A very important matter is the feeding of the dogs. 

 In these days, when so many firms are producing bis- 

 cuits, on purpose to cater for the wants of the vast 

 doggy community, there is no difficulty in getting some 

 of them, but, I have found, in a long experience with 

 dogs, that, although almost all breeds will eat dog bis- 

 cuits — some even take them when given whole, and 

 chop them up like bones, even dry — it is better, in most 

 cases, to break them up, about the size of walnuts, and 

 soak them the day previously to use, in hot water, or 

 broth, or even cold water. If boiled vegetables, pota- 

 toes, cabbage, or some such, be mixed with them after- 

 wards, it is not only more palatable, but better for the 

 dogs, than the biscuit alone, and occasionally, say once 

 in a week or ten days, a little flour of brimstone, in the 

 proportion of about a teaspoonful for a fair-sized dog, 

 should be mixed with the food. 



We know, ourselves, that whatever our food, the 

 most tempting that money could buy, we should tire of 

 it, if always the same, and it is precisely the same with 

 animals, so that, the more it is varied, the better, even if 

 the change is slight, and all who have had much to do 

 with dogs, will know that some dogs, and even some 

 breeds of dogs, are very fanciful and capricious in their 

 appetites, and not always disposed to do well. 



When dogs are " off their feed," a sheep's head, 

 boiled, and then broken up, and the bones, meat, and 



