*' If you pick up a starving dog and 

 make him prosperous he will not bite you;'* 

 that is the principal difference between a 

 dog and a man. 



Pudd'n-head Wilson's Calendar. 



PREFACE. 



You will find in this second edition, quite a lot of new and valuable information 

 on dogs, the book much enlarged and greatly improved over the first one I got out. 

 It has been a work of love and labor one equal with the*, other to write this book, 

 the last one I shall probably be able to get out, as I am a very hard-worked man, 

 and, while I will be in dogs till I die, yet I will hardly be able to again go through 

 the mountain of hard work that it is, getting out a book. For five years I have 

 worked on this edition, ever since I wrote and issued the first one, and I hope that 

 I have compiled in this edition all that is necessary for a dog owner to know, so 

 that by following the teachings of the book you will be able to properly care for and 

 treat your dog as it deserves the very lest you can do for it and this none too 



good. 



Always for dogs faithfully yours, 



AL. G. EBERHART. 



P. S. Wherever in these pages I have given prescriptions or theories I have 

 tried and intended giving credit to the authority quoted; but incidental to getting 

 up a work of this kind, I may not have in each case given proper credit. I want 

 to say here that a good part of the information given wag gained by having been 

 a constant reader of the American Field. Field and Fancy, American Stock-Keeper, 

 The Doo Fancier and Sportsmen's Review, dog papers that every dog lover or dog 

 owner should be regular readers of, and from all of which they can derive great 

 benefit. For much of the good advice given herein I have my friend Harry W. 

 Lacy, kennel editor of the American Stock-Keeper, to thank, and several valuable 

 proscriptions given were taken from the American Field, from their "Answers to 

 Correspondents" column this e^J^^^&j^j-flrst tried or considered good, then 

 reproduced. O^ ft AL Q E 



