242 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



continue feeding to the last. This morbid hunger must 

 not be indulged. One pound of good rice may be boiled 

 or cooked in a sufficiency of carefully made beef-tea, every 

 particle of meat or bone being removed. This will con- 

 stitute the provender for one day necessary to sustain the 

 largest dog, and a quarter the amount will be sufficient 

 for one of the average size. Where good rice is not to be 

 obtained, oatmeal or bread, allowing for the moisture 

 which the last contains, may be substituted. No bones, 

 nor substances likely, when swallowed, to irritate the 

 stomach, must on any account be allowed. The quantity 

 given at one time must ever be small ; and every sort of 

 provender offered should be soft and soothing to the 

 internal parts ; though the poor dog will be eager to eat 

 that which will be injurious. Water should be placed 

 within its reach, and offered during the day, the head 

 being held while the incapacitated animal drinks. 



When a dog is prostrated by this affliction, it must on 

 no account be suffered to remain on the floor, where its 

 limbs would speedily become excoriated, being forcibly 

 moved upon the boards ; anything placed beneath the 

 animal to save the limbs, would be saturated with the 

 urine and fyeces the poor beast is necessitated to pass. 

 The best bed in such cases is made of a slanting piece 

 of woodwork, of sufficient size to allow the animal to lie 

 with ease at full length. The planks composing the 

 wooden stage must be placed apart, be pierced with 

 numerous holes, have the edges rounded, and be elevated 

 at one end so as to allow all moisture readily to run of 



