152 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



where it will be necessary to do so will only add force to this rule. When help 

 is called for, find a veterinary surgeon who understands treatment of dogs, or one 

 who makes dogs a specialty. Many veterinarians are all right as to horses and 

 cows, but woefully ignorant as to dogs. If manual assistance has to be given, 

 avoid unnecessary force. When labor is protracted and bitch seems to need 

 assistance to create more labor pains, then give her Fellows' Compound Syrup of 

 Hypophosphate, two hours apart; the dose would be a half teaspoonful for a bitch 

 of 15 to 25 Ibs., and three-quarters of a teaspoonful for a 25 to 40-lb. bitch, with a 

 teaspoonful for larger ones up to 60 Ibs., while for very large bitches such as a 

 St. Bernard, a teaspoonful and a half would be the dose. Get one ounce of the 

 Fellows' Compound Syrup of Hypophosphate and have your druggist add to it 

 four grains of quinine. I have found this very valuable, much better and safer 

 than ergot (the liquid extract of rye), which is liable to work both ways, favor- 

 able and otherwise, expanding or contracting the womb. Such medicine is not 

 always necessary, as in very many cases Nature takes care of the matter, and it 

 is only needed and advised to be given when bitch requires assistance the object 

 being to create more labor wains if bitch needs the same. In several cases of 

 bitches that required the Fellows' Syrup of Hypophosphate I also gave an injec- 

 tion per vagina of glycerine put into hot water and injected luke warm, but of 

 course not hot. 



The cases of greatest danger are where a bitch has been allowed to stray 

 during restrum, and was bred to a dog of much larger size than herself; and very 

 finely bred and highly pampered bitches often suffer greatly, and die in the act 

 of giving birth. In healthy parturition even, considerable time is often occupied, 

 the rest between, being of great service in supporting her against the prostration 

 consequent in the event. The bitch should not be interfered with in these inter- 

 vals, and it is then foolish to try and force food upon her. In all cases where 

 difficulty from wrong presentation or the dispmportioned size of the pups occur, 

 both from motives of prudence and humanity the veterinary surgeon should be 

 consulted for his obstetric knowledge, and skill in manipulation will save much 

 unnecessary suffering, and probably the lives of mother and pups. 



Sometimes there are one or two very late. You may go away, assuring your- 

 self all is over, and that your bitch has a litter of only five, and come back in the 

 morning to find seven all sucking away like as many leeches, and the mother look- 

 ing so proud and pleased she wouldn't exchange places with a princess royal. 



Should the dam's supply of milk prove to be inadequate, it will be necessary 

 either to place her puppies under the care of a foster mother or else to do the best 

 possible under the circumstances with artificial food. The former is always a 

 risky alternative as it is not every bitch that will take kindly to the whelps of 

 another, and unless she has been upon the premises for some time so as to be 

 accustomed to the surroundings it is unlikely that she will do them justice. Then, 

 too, if she has not whelped at very nearly the same time as the other, there is 

 likely to be trouble over her milk supply. Consequently it is safest and best, 

 though possibly a little more troublesome, to bring the puppies up by hand if their 

 mother has not enough milk to provide them with nourishment. 



Fortunately, however, for the dog owner, Spratt's Patent step in here to assist 

 him in his dilemma, as, in the Orphan Puppy Food prepared by this Company, a 

 most excellent substitute for mothers' milk will be found; in fact, there is nothing 

 procurable that can compare with it. In the case of many substitutes for the 

 natural nourishing- fluid of pups, it will be found that the stomachs of the young- 

 sters are liable to be upset by some, while in other instances the puppies do not 



