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BREEDING AND RAISING OF PUPPIES. 159 



"The latter contingency is one that frequently happens. While the earlier 

 puppies are yet moist they are pushed away from their dam in her efforts to give 

 birth to succeeding puppies, cold strikes into their tender little system, they 

 gradually lose the vigor which Nature has given them to aid them in securing 

 the dam's teats, and drawing from them their natural sustenance, they whine, and 

 gradually pine away and die, to the consternation and dismay of an anxious and 

 expectant owner. 



"Some breeders, in order to avert the possibility of what we have just de^ 

 scribed, take away the puppies as they are born into a kitchen, saddle room or 

 other place, in which there is a fire to dry them, putting them back when the bitch 

 has either finished whelping, or at intervals of rest from her labor. 



"A bitch, shortly before she is due to whelp and afterward, should be kept 

 upon sloppy food rather, such as porridge and milk, bread and milk, hound meal 

 soaked in sheep's head broth, etc. While whelping she should simply be given 

 some warm milk. The bitch should be*allowed out for a short run of a few min- 

 utes on the second day, the duration of which may be increased each day. 



"The secret of success in rearing puppies is fresh air, pure water, free and 

 unrestrained exercise, good food, giveai often and a little at a time, access to grass, 

 and a dry, warm bed at night. The fewer puppies are kept in kennels the better, 

 and the more the foregoing table of hygiene can be observed the better will puppies 

 come on." 



Especially should the puppy quarters be kept sweet and clean, for a dozen 

 flies will take more out of suckling puppies thain a night's rest will put back. Here 

 is where a cool cellar or other darkened building will be found almost imperative 

 when the mercury is trying to do a century. The brooding quarters should be 

 kept cool and in semi-gloom, and more than ordinary attention should be paid to 

 cleanliness of the bedding so as not to attract flies. Next to worms there is noth- 

 ing more irritating and calculated to retard a puppy's well doing than flies. 



MV c RE: BID. 



NOT keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your 

 friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words 

 while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made 

 happier by them; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. 

 The tlowers you mean to send for their coffins, send to brighten and sweeten their homes 

 before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes laid away, full of tragrant per- 

 fumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would 

 rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them, that I 

 may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin 

 without a flower, a funeral without an eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love and 

 sympathy. Let us learn to anoint our friends beforehand for their burial. Post-mortem 

 kindness does not cheer the troubled spirit. Flowers on the coffin cast no fragrance back- 

 ward over life's weary way. 



LOVE DOGS ALL DOGS never miss a chance to be kind, or do good to a 

 dog even the unfortunate, homeless cur you see on the street, for he has a heart Just 

 the same as the finest bred one, and just as deserving of good treatment, 



Yours, for Dogs, AL, G, EBERHART, 



