DOGS I 'i-HEI.i MANAGEMENT. 



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approach the bitch whose mother was large, or whose 

 brothers and sisters stand much higher than herself. 

 Let the reader look at the two portraits that follow. 



THE BLOOD-HOUND. 



They are evidently of one and the same family. They 

 both had a common progenitor. The beagle is the 

 blood-hound, only of smaller size ; and often these beau- 

 tiful diminutive creatures suffer in parturition, or throw 

 pups whose size takes from them all value. However, 

 for the chance of security, if for no more tangible object, 

 let the dog, in every instance, be smaller than the bitch ; 

 and let it also have no disease, but be in perfect health, 

 strong and lively. A dog in any way deformed or 

 affected with any disorder ought to be avoided. Blind- 

 ness, skin eruptions, piles, paralysis of the tongue, and a 

 host of other annoyances, I more than suspect to be 

 hereditary. The mental qualities are transmitted, as 



