FEEDING. 



FEEDING. Here is an important subject which should be well understood. No 

 dog over six months old should ever have over two meals per day, and regularity 

 in eating is just as important in dogs as it is in human beings. Dogs should have 

 plain food. I have on an average of seventy-five dogs in my kennel, and here is 

 their bill of fare. For breakfast, which is iserved about seven o'clock in summer 

 and winter, they get SPIIATT'S PATENT DOG CAKES for their breakfast, fed dry, but 

 broken up into smaller pieces (excepting to young puppies that yet require soft 

 food and to be fed oftener than twice a day). This I break up with a hammer on 

 the board walk in their yards, or in wet weather, on the kennel floor, spreading it 

 out so the dogs don't get to fighting. I let them all pitch in and eat, which they 

 do with a relish, and why shouldn't they? It is a prepared food for dogs, com- 

 posed of beef, flour, oatmeal, bone meal, etc., in fact articles that a dog needs. 

 When your puppies' teeth are developed sufficiently then they can have it, but 

 broken up smaller. Spratt's Patent make a special prepared Purry CAKE, which 

 is more suitable for the youngsters. See their page advertisement in front of 

 book, or I can furnish you with it. 



As a rule, it is best to feed it dry, although occasionally it is a good plan to 

 moisten it with either hot or cold water or with soup. Dry, it serves the purpose 

 of a bone and good for cleaning teeth, sweetening breath and is digestible. I let 

 my dogs eat about what they want for breakfast, but if any is left, don't let it 

 lay, but pick it. up and save for next morning. In action it is a perfect regulator, 

 and its use will give a dog a good coat, a clean breath and sound, handsome teeth. 

 Until supper time, about five o'clock, they get nothing, and this is as it should be, 

 then their supper is lean boiled beef and mutton cooked in a large kettle (properly 

 salted), also in which I cook, a lot of large bones that I get daily from my 

 butchers. My kennel man then, when this is well cooked, takes out all the meat 

 and bones, cuts off of them about all the meat and cuts up the meat into small 

 pieces. He then slices up stale bread and mixes this into the kettle of soup, 

 making a mush of it, which is allowed to sit and cool till feeding time. Dogs are 

 then fed in pans separately, using the mush and some of the cut-up meat, 

 mixed together in their pan, some dogs getting more meat than others, as per how 

 fat, or too fat they may be. Quite a lot of the dogs, those I can depend on to 

 not fight at meal time, are fed together in the main yard from trays or larger 

 pans. Pans are all gathered up and washed that night so as to be sweet and clean 

 for next day cleanliness very important always. Now, then comes the "dessert" 

 the bones, which we throw out in the yards so that each one has a large bone 

 to gnaw on and don't they enjoy this. We watch them while they are at the 

 bones, where "the push" are together, to guard against fights that migh occur, as 

 dogs, like some children, are selfish and greedy, and try to take the other dog's 

 bone from him. Generally, a word from me will stop this trouble, but if not, 

 there is a whip handy and it is properly used to quell the disturbance promptly. 

 Chicken bones, or any small bones like from a lamb chop, are VERY DANGEROUS/ 

 l>ones that they can chew up into slivers; as you must know that all such must 

 pass down and through all the intestines, which means a dangerous, risky trip, 

 as it is not a straight, but a very winding and crooked one, the great danger in 

 this sliver, if it passes through the throat, is in puncturing or getting lodged in 



