l86 KENNEL SECRETS. 



Some dogs will not touch food at any time during a 

 show owing to the presence of bitches in "season " ; as a 

 rule, however, the appetite manifests a disposition to return 

 by the third day, especially if coaxed a bit as advised. But 

 one should never go very far to bring it back. 



Writers have thought that danger lurked in feeding- and 

 drinking-pans at shows ; and it certainly would were they 

 used indiscriminately, but as a rule one pan does double 

 duty, and each remains constantly in the stall in which it 

 was first placed. Were this not the case, however, but the 

 pans gathered up and taken out to be filled, they would 

 need to be carefully washed, not with cold, nor even warm 

 water merely, but with boiling water, for in no other way 

 could they be made perfectly safe. And where this treat- 

 ment was impossible the thoughtful exhibitor would see 

 that the pan was removed only by himself or his repre- 

 sentative. 



A word here as to the drinking water at shows. All 

 know that man frequently suffers from diarrhoea in conse- 

 quence of radical changes of his drinking water ; and the 

 same may be due to the impurities or to great variations 

 in the salts which are normal ingredients. Dogs are less 

 susceptible to these changes than he, yet the indications 

 are that they are sometimes affected by them. But the 

 only means by which the most of their ill effects can be 

 obviated is boiling ; and that is not likely to be resorted 

 to except by the ideal management. 



Considering one of the most inveterate habits of the 

 canine race, the droppings in the ring where dogs are 

 taken for judgment and exercise must be more or less of 

 a menace, for were a victim of an infectious disease to pass 

 the veterinary and be admitted to a show he would likely 

 deposit about, in these his intestinal discharges, the 

 specific germs, which, in turn, would be taken up by other 



