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discover and overcome the cause of the impairment and 

 improve the general health by means of carefully regu- 

 lated exercise. 



During the summer months, dogs, like mankind, are at 

 times much depressed by the heat, and when so all their 

 powers are more or less enfeebled. Digestion of course 

 shares in this decline in vigor, and it follows that its 

 duties should, for the time being, be made as light as. 

 possible. To this end the quantity of meat, the dog's 

 heartiest food, can properly be reduced somewhat and 

 the deficiency supplied by vegetables, and especially 

 those that grow above ground, for not only are they no 

 tax on the digestive organs but by their action on the 

 bowels and blood they greatly favor comfort under 

 exposure to heat. Moreover, where this salutary change 

 in diet is made dogs are much less liable to suffer from 

 skin eruptions attended with intense itching. 



Another important rule for hot weather is to cook each 

 day's food on the day that it is to be fed out, and failing 

 in this, all meats, broths and soups, kept over night for 

 the following day's feeding, should be recooked before they 

 are served, for such foods decompose quickly and during 

 this change virulent poisons are developed. In truth 

 dogs are capable of resisting food poisons to a wonderful 

 degree, but just how far their resistant powers extend is 

 not known, and there is reason for the belief that not a 

 few of the now mysterious visitations of sickness in the 

 kennels are due to these food poisons. Consequently 

 recooking by boiling must be accepted as advisable, and 

 if this is kept up for ten or fifteen minutes all such poisons 

 will with certainty be destroyed. 



In closing, the fact is again urged that dogs young and 

 old are often overfed, and if so, while they seem to be 

 doing well at first and putting on fat, puppies at least 



