42 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



if not so long. As to the size of the dose of castor oil this depends greatly on size 

 and age of dog. Take a grofvn dog the size of a fox terrier or pug, by this is meant 

 a dog over a year old, and you can give it a tablespoonful. If this don't work in an 

 hour or so, repeat the dose once. A dog a year old or over, like an English setter, 

 could stand two tablespoonsful at a dose, while the larger breeds like a St. Bernard, 

 could stand an ounce'and a half, which would be three tablespoonsful, or even two 

 ounces at a dose. Some dogs, like some persons, are harder to physic than others, 

 so that judgment should be used; the idea being not to give too much, but just 

 enough to accomplish the desired result. Fluid extract of oascara sagrada is a 

 remedy much used for constipation, and to the dose of castor oil from five to twenty 

 drops of this can be added and given with it with benefit. 



Puppies from six months to a year old should be given smaller doses in propor- 

 tion to age and breed of dog. 



Young puppies as a rule should have rather loose bowels than otherwise, and 

 are rarely ever troubled with constipation. 



Watch your dog's bowels, which is easily done by spending a few minutes each 

 morning after it is let out in the yard. Often if only slightly bound up, or passage 

 is a bit too hard, a little oatmeal (same as you cook it for yourself), or some cooked 

 liver for its breakfast, or a good drink of butter-milk will loosen it up all right, in 

 place of the oil. If passage is normal (shaped and not hard), do nothing at all. 

 Every dog should empty itself at least twice a day and puppies oftener. 



CAKED BREAST.-- Thie is generally caused by milk fever, a too plentiful sup- 

 i'!y of milk which is not nursed sufficiently from the dam by a small litter, or will 

 happen in cases of the bitch loosing her puppies. She must be milked three times 

 daily by hand (this done gently on teats that are hard and caked) for a few days, 

 gradually getting down to twice, and then once a day, stopping as the flow of milk 

 get? less. 



Also use quite often, every two hours or so, camphorated oil or gum camphor 

 and lard melted together (which should be kept in a corked jar), rubbing this in 

 well on all the teats. This will dry up the milk, soften up the caked breasts and 

 dry up the hanging down bag as well, making the bitch more sightly looking. A 

 solution of camphor, tannin and glycerine, which any druggist can put up for you, 

 is the very best thing to use alone for drying up the bags of a bitch after she has 

 weaned her puppies. 



DENT prescribed for following case: 



"My English setter bitch, six years old, whelped and had a caked udder but 

 seemed to get over it. Now one of the frqnt teats shows a lump or cake ais large as 

 an English walnut. What treatment do you advise and what is it? Ans. It is 

 simply caked. Give five grains of the iodide of potash three times a day for two 

 weeks and apply with gentle friction to the enlarged teat the following ointment: 

 Belladonna extract twenty grains, gum camphor twenty grains, lanolin one ounce. 

 She can be bred safely when she comes in season." 



CLAWS, OVERGROWN. Toy dogs and house pets which have little or no 

 exercise out of doors, where they can dig and scrape the ground, and so wear 

 the claws down, suffer from an overgrowth of them. The na'il curls round, and, 

 if not cut in time, it grows into the sole of the foot, causing soreness and lame- 

 ness. The ends of the claws should be cut off with a pair of sharp, strong 

 nippers, or nail clippers, such as one can buy at any cutler's for 75 cents. 

 Puppies' toe nails, especially of those running on grass or on boards in winter, 



