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KENNEL SORES OR CALLOUS GROWTHS. Dogs are sometimes afflicted with ken- 

 nel sores on hips and hocks, elbows, etc. They should be attended to at once. 

 Boracic acid ointment should be applied. Callous growths on elbows and joints 

 must be kept softened with vaseline or whale oil. 



FUNGUS GROWTHS ON MOUTH OR TONGUE. "My cocker spaniel has been troubled 

 lately with canker in the mouth and on the tongue. This comes in spots, which 

 enlarge until the several spots join together; it looks like a fungus growth, not a 

 sore, but on the mushroom order. Please prescribe." 



Answer. "Touch the spots once daily, for four days, with lunar caustic; care 

 being taken not to allow any to run on his tongue, and only one to be treated 

 at a time." 



FEVER MIXTURE. Every kennel man should keep a good fever mixture on his 

 kennel shelf. A chill or cold is indicated by hot, dry nose, shivering and lassi- 

 tude, dull eyes, with more or less discharge from nose and eyes. If attended to 

 at once serious complications may often be avoided. Dogs going to and from 

 shows are subjected to many extreme changes of temperature during express 

 transportation, and a quinine pill will usually ward off any ill effects. If, how- 

 ever, the symptoms described develop, the following fever mixture should be 

 given: Powdered nitre one dram, sweet spirits of nitre one-half ounce, Minderer- 

 uos' spirits one-half ounce, wine of antimony one dram, water four ounces. Ter- 

 riers and dogs over 15 pounds up to pointer and setters should be given a table- 

 spoonful in a little gruel every four hours. 



BONE SWALLOWED. If a dog has swallowed a small bone, a chicken splinter, 

 for instance, arid shows signs of trouble, it is a good plan to give a bolus of 

 mashed potato or soft crumb bread. This will generally aid the passage of the 

 bone. 



AGE TO SPAY BITCHES. "At what age is it best to spay a bitch? Can a per- 

 son perform the operation himself? If so, shall be thankful for the information 

 on how to proceed?" 



Answer. "The operation of spaying a bitch is usually undertaken at the 

 age of four to six months. I do not advise such an interference with Nature, 

 however. Upon maturity the spayed bitch or castrated dog -becomes unduly fat 

 and lazy, and lacks enthusiasm, ambition and sagacity. Most assuredly such an 

 operation must be attended to by a competent veterinarian. 



CLIPPING OVERGROWN TOE NAILS. Toy dogs that have little or no exercise out 

 of doors and do not get a chance to get their nails wore down by contact with the 

 street are often troubled with this, and neglected cases where the naiLs curl around 

 and grow into the flesh are very painful, fester, causing soreness and lameness. 

 Cut off the ends of the nails with a pair of sharp nippers, that you can buy at any 

 hardware store but not too close. Do this same as you do your finger nails, but 

 with your dog do it about every two weeks, avoiding cutting into the quick part, 

 you can easily do iis right by being careful. 



DOGS KILLING CHICKENS. Should your dog acquire this very bad habit you 

 can break him of it, which you should do at once, as he has no right to do this, 

 and perhaps cause trouble with you and your neighbors. Catch him in the act, 

 give him a good whipping and then take the chicken he has killed and fasten it 



