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For most puppies of toy breeds new milk must be 

 the principal food during the month after weaning, and 

 this can be occasionally thickened slightly with bread, 

 crackers or well-boiled rice. Mutton or beef broths can 

 then be allowed, but in the beginning they must be as 

 thin and as sparingly used as in cases of infants taking 

 them for the first time. 



To feed only a very little and very often must be the 

 rule with the smallest of these, and once in an hour and a 

 half will be near right for about a month after weaning. 

 Then a trifle longer intervals will be allowable, but they 

 must be very slowly and gradually lengthened, for even 

 when mature toys should have food several times in the 

 day. 



In feeding toys and other varieties which it is desirable 

 to keep down in weight breeders must have before them 

 the fact that the animal foods, milk and meat, alone and 

 uncombined with other substances, tend to produce firm- 

 ness of flesh with an absence of superfluous fat ; while 

 on the other hand vegetable foods, and particularly the 

 starches, favor the laying on of fat. They must also 

 bear in mind that animal foods abound in the materials 

 for bone and muscle building; and while in moderate 

 quantities they do but little more than meet the wear and 

 tear of the body and keep the muscles firm and complete, 

 if they are given in excess they tend decidedly to increase 

 the size of the bony structure and amount of muscle or 

 flesh. 



That there may be no mistake these physiological facts 

 are simplified and dressed for practice : Give puppies the 

 animal foods, meat and milk, in moderate quantities only 

 and they will be likely to keep down in bone and muscle ; 

 give them vegetable foods in large quantities and the ten- 

 dency will be merely to fatten ; give animal foods in large 



