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in his window at a price lower than the genuine article could be sold for; people 

 &ee them they look cu'te you buy one, thinking you got a great bargain. You 

 raise this puppy and, of course, become attached to it, but gradually it developes 

 into a common cur, and you are compelled to apologize for your pet when your 

 friends visit you. 'vSt/ft is never sold for the price of calico." All fine bred 

 animals cost more because they are harder to raise. Always be willing to pay a 

 fair price for a good one. Buy of legitimate breeders and you'll get the worth of 

 your money. 



RECEIVING DOGS. If you buy a dog that comes to you by express and has had 

 a long trip, having left ht's home to come to a new one and among strangers, and 

 he at first should act scared, shy or sulky, and, of course, then not look his best, 

 don't conclude that the dog is not as he was represented by the seller, and that 

 you have been fooled, but speak to him kindly, pet him, and it won't be long 

 till he will see that he has found a friend in his new master, and while,, no 

 doubt, he may think of the home and friends he has left, and very often 

 silently grieve for them, yet he will quickly learn to love 'the new master, "and 

 show by his actions how happy he is in his new home. When thus at his ease 

 and recovered from the strain and excitement of the trip, he will act and look 

 h.'mself again, and now is the time 'to judge him and see if he is not as repre- 

 sented, which he will prove to be, I think, especially if he was purchased from 

 a reliable breeder. 



When you take the dog out of his crate, unless he has a collar on and you 

 at first hold him by this or his chain, the best plan is to take him out of the 

 box in a yard or room, for he might be badly frightened under the circumstances 

 and get away from you. Also see the first thing tha't his collar is tight enough, 

 so no danger of his slipping it over his head if scared, and getting away perhaps. 



Very many dogs I receive for shows have a collar on so loose that, if from 

 fr.'ght or any undue cause, they could easily slip it off and escape. Don't have 

 it so tight, that it chokes, but just so you can run your finger around under it 

 is right and safe. While for many years I have been a professional handler 

 of dogs at bench shows, having at some shows as many as seventy dogis of all 

 breeds to receive and care for during the week, and the greater part of them 

 being strange to me, this being our first introduction, I never had any trouble, 

 and riot a dog in the many I have thus handled for others but was just as good 

 a friend of mine, and quickly, too, as were my own favorites that I had brought 

 from my kennels. 



After receiving a dog, give him a chance in the yard to attend to nature s 

 calls, which he will very likely want to do, and you watch, to see the condition 

 of his bowels. He may be either constipated or vice versa, either due to having 

 "held in" for too long a trip in his box. Very many matured dogs will not 

 "empty"' in a box on a trip, and herein lies the greatest danger of long trips by 

 express when they do not empty in box, the very natural result being either 

 inflammation of the bowels or kidneys either or both. If dog is bound up, the 

 feces being voided with a hard effort, and it is dry and very hard, give the dog 

 a dose of castor and olive oil mixed. If bowels are too loose, passage running 

 from dog too freely and very thin, attend to this, as treated under its heading, 

 but such cases 'generally yield to proper feeding for a day or so with foods to 

 fit the case. A puppy will often stand a long trip (if fed and watered en tfoute) 

 better than an adult dog, because the pups will attend to nature's calls en route, 

 which is all the better even if it arrives soiled from so doing almost certain to 

 be 'so, confined in a box. 



