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only get through with your assistance and kind care, for which I will thank you 

 in my way. I WILL NOT BITE YOU! Confinement in this box is bad enough 

 but I DO NEED A DfciNK and a bite to eat. 



Some express messengers are, I am sorry to say, afraid of dogs, but by 

 furnishing them the name of dog, when they speak to him he the dog will 

 think he has found a friend, probably wag his tail and give an assurance by his 

 looks to the messenger that he is all right, and thus secure better care and some 

 kind words from the messenger and add to the dog's comfort on the trip. 



Always crate a dog, never ship him on chain for several good reasons. 

 Crating is safer, cleaner, and more comfortable for the dog. On chain he takes 

 too many chances. He may sltp his collar and jump out of the car door, or in a 

 crowded car a trunk or box might fall on and injure him, and besides, the express 

 company' charge for any dog on chain not less than a hundred pounds, even Ir 

 it was only a twenty-pound dog. 



Always notify by previous mail or by wire the party who is to get the dog, 

 so that he may kjiow when to look for him and meet the dog at depot, thus short- 

 ening his trip a bit and avoiding the delay caused by the dog being taken first 

 to city express office, laying there awhile and then drove around to the house 

 he is directed to. 



Don't ship a 3x1 dog in a 3x1 crate. You like to stretch yourself sometimes. 

 Neither should you ship it in a box far too large. A dog in such a box will often 

 receive a nasty knock in being handled none too gently by the messenger; if you 

 do, besides, you or the other fellow will have to pay useless express charges. 



DOGS CHAINED UP. I do not believe in chaining dogs up in a yard, but if you 

 want him chained at night don't make it too short and he must have freedom 

 during the day. To keep a dog chained constantly day and night is cruel and 

 inhuman, and will make any dog cross. Dogs are not born cross you never saw 

 a cross puppy and when you see a cross dog some human being man, woman 

 or some good-for-nothing boy <is 'to blame for it, not the dog. There would be 

 no cross dogs if people were not the cause of it by their ill treatment of the dog 

 any more than there would be a balky horse only for men fools and brutes 

 who make balky horses. 



If you must chain the dog up during the day, then give him his liberty at 

 night. It is not necessary to chain him up if you have a yard with a fence high 

 enough and gate securely fastened. Many a bad boy will delight to tease your 

 dog simply because he sees he is chained up for the boy would be afraid to if 

 the dog was loose and this teasing makes a cross dog. I don't blame the dog, 

 but I do the boy. 



If you have no yard fenced in and a large dog and must keep it on chajin 

 part of the time, allow at least 20 feet of chain. Fancy the misery of a man 

 full of life and energy trying to 'take exercise by pulling and straining against 

 a chain three or four feet long. Yet this is the length which some otherwise 

 humane people seem to think a just allowance for the yard dog. The chain 

 should be fastened to a stake about 18 feet from the kennel. 



Should there be no enclosure for your dog to romp in and must therefore 

 be tied up to prevent loafing, straying, or getting coaxed away and stolen, then 

 proceed thus in securing and still enable him to move about tolerably freely: Get 

 a strong wire, ten to forty feet long, slip a ring on it, fasten wire at each end to 

 stout stake, drive the stakes at full stretch of wire into ground to below the 

 surface. Hook the dog's chain to ring running freely on the wire, and your dog 

 can run up and down this course at will. By attaching such a wire to the aide 



