CHAPTER V. 



GENERAL DIETARY. 



The reader ought now have a near idea of the dietetic 

 treatment required by the average puppy, which is to be 

 found among all varieties excepting toys and others that 

 must be kept down to certain weights, fixed by standards, 

 in order to be able to compete in their various classes at 

 dog shows. In other words he is a puppy to whom size, 

 health, strength and endurance are essentials of infinite 

 importance. 



Among the so-called toys there are some fairly robust, 

 but taken as a whole they must be considered delicate 

 compared with other members of their race, while some 

 are notoriously lacking constitutionally. And this is due 

 to the persistent efforts to get the smallest, but not, as 

 some writers have stated, to a persistent selection of the 

 smallest for breeding, for as a matter of fact only a very 

 few of the smallest toys will breed. 



Obviously no one rule can be fixed for these varieties, 

 and the limits of the digestive powers must be carefully 

 studied in every instance and the feeding be in accord- 

 ance with them. 



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