420 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



to sleep in the open air where he pleases outside of his 

 master's cottage, and has but little food, and very seldom 

 any flesh. I scarcely ever have a sporting dog sent to 

 me, on the approach of autumn, suffering from what 

 their masters are pleased to term " foul," but canker 

 within and without the ear are found to be included in 

 the so-called disorder. Often am I desired to look at 

 both long-haired and short-haired dogs, and find both 

 kinds victims to these diseases ; but canker without the 

 ear, or on the flap of the ear, I never see without canker 

 within the ear being also present. Canker on the flap 

 of the ear, it is true, becomes the worst in short-haired 

 dogs, because these animals have this part by nature 

 more exposed to injury. Long-haired dogs, on the other 

 hand, have the disease within the organ worst, because 

 the warmth of their coats serves to keep hot and to en- 

 courage the disorder. 



Therefore, we find on inquiry that neither breed of 

 dogs is more liable or more subject to be attacked by a 

 particular kind of canker ; though in each kind there ex- 

 ist circumstances calculated to give a direction to the dis- 

 ease when once established. Authors speak of rounding 

 the ear for external canker ; that is, of taking a portion 

 of the border away, so as to leave the flap of the ear the 

 less for the operation ; and fox-hounds are said to have 

 the ears rounded to escape the ravages of the disorder. 

 There are said to have been poor dogs subjected to 

 a second and third rounding ; till at length the entire 

 ear has been rounded away, and the Avretched beast h~ 



