58 KENNEL SECRETS. 



it must be encouraged and they must be put on their 

 feet at the earliest moment and kept on them as much as 

 possible. 



The reader will now be taken back to the litter of 

 puppies which were left in the first week after the wean- 

 ing. And that there may be no mistake it is urged that 

 these puppies be given until the tenth week the same 

 number of meals and at about the same hours as directed 

 in the week following the weaning — the fifth week. If 

 then they are straight and strong on their legs the num- 

 ber of meals may be reduced to four, and kept at that 

 until the fifth month. But this reduction must not be 

 made as long as there is any deformity of the feet or legs, 

 or any seems threatened. 



From the fifth month until the tenth month the pup- 

 pies should have three meals daily ; and thereafter two 

 will be sufficient. 



Having been fed on well-baked stale bread and rice and 

 milk, toast and light broths, for about one week, these 

 puppies, assuming that; they are other than toys, should 

 have — even as early as the beginning of the sixth week 

 — more concentrated and heartier food. Therefore a 

 sheep's head which has been split lengthwise, or, if this 

 cannot be obtained, lean meat, should be cooked with 

 vegetables, as potatoes, beets, carrots or cabbage leaves, 

 and the whole seasoned with a little salt. After a thor- 

 ough boiling the vegetables, meat and bones should be 

 removed and the broth thickened to the consistency of 

 pea soup by the means of well-baked stale bread, rice, 

 or a flour made by grating one or more dog cakes on a 

 nutmeg grater. 



This should be given them for about a week ; and con- 

 venience suggests that it be their food at eleven and the 

 last thing at night, and that their breakfasts be of scalded 



