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constantly filled. Her desire for liquid was not speedily- 

 quenched ; and it became to me a source of some pain 

 when I reflected how much agony the craving must have 

 caused prior to my being conscious of its existence. The 

 next litter was not eaten by the mother. She brought 

 them up, and they likewise did well, drinking as much 

 as they pleaseed. The disposition of the doe appeared 

 to undergo a change. From having been savage, that 

 is, from always endeavoring to bite and scratch the hand 

 that cleaned her residence, or even supplied her table, 

 she became gentle and familiar, allowing her person to 

 be caressed, and letting her progeny be looked at. She 

 was at last as good as she was beautiful ; and I parted 

 with her for a sum exactly four times that which she had 

 cost me. 



After a bitch has pupped, there always is from the 

 vagina a discharge, which rarely ceases before a week 

 expires, and sometimes flows forth for a longer period. 

 Some gentlemen of the " fancy," as the dog breeders 

 term themselves, boast they know how to check it ; and 

 to what extent their knowledge may reach I cannot pre- 

 tend to say. I have been requested to perform such an 

 ofEce, but hitherto I have not attempted to fulfil it ; and 

 I should be very sorry to do so, even if I were certain 

 there existed the means to arrest the exudation. It is 

 natural ; if the animal be left alone, she will be sure to 

 perform the offices of cleanliness, and to do everything 

 her state requires. 



For the first week the bitch is very attentive to her 



