112 DOGS: THEIR MANAGLMENT. 



eagerly is it gorged ; and a bit of juicy or fat meat, .cut 

 so as to contain and cover the pill, ensures its being 

 swallowed. Medicine, however, which in this manner is 

 to be administered, ought to be perfectly devoid of smell, 

 or for a certainty the trick will be discovered. Indeed, 

 there are but few drugs possessed of odour which can be 

 long used in dog practice, and even those that are en- 

 dowed with much taste cannot be continuously employed. 

 When the dog is very ill, the intelligent beast becomes 

 conscious of its' danger, and almost any kind or any form 

 of medicine will be accepted. There is no difficulty 

 generally then ; but in chronic diseases, that only vex 

 the temper and scarcely lower the spirit, the ingenuity 

 will mostly need to be exerted. Some medicines, how- 

 ever, can be dissolved in the water ; others may be 

 smeared upon the food ; and fortunately the majority of 

 those drugs appropriate to slow and inveterate disorders 

 admit of being thus exhibited. Fluids are perhaps 

 more readily than solids given to dogs, by the generality 

 of inexperienced persons. To administer liquids, the 



