CHAPTER II. 



THE FEEDING. 



Under properly regulated exercise a dog fairly healthy 

 in the beginning will have gained at every point before 

 the fourth week, his muscles having noticeably filled and 

 hardened, his step become more elastic, his eye bright 

 and clear, his skin cleaner and softer, and his hair finer 

 and richer in hue. Moreover his appetite will have grown 

 better, and his digestive organs having shared in the gen- 

 eral improvement a far greater proportion of his food will 

 now be assimilated and devoted to flesh-building. 



Consequently he will require more food, and it may be 

 advisable to increase the number of his meals daily. But 

 if fed twice daily, which is often enough for most dogs, 

 the morning feed should be not more than one-third the 

 quantity given later. Increase in quantity and frequency 

 would of course have been hazardous under the old regime, 

 but now that he is taking a great deal of exercise both 

 will be perfectly safe, provided care and judgment are 

 used, and it will also be safe and expedient to give him 

 more concentrated and nutritious foods. 



In making up the diet table for him new milk at once 



