202 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



dog catches cold, which, if not attended 'to promptly, is liable to be a sick dog. 

 Provide a box or basket FO that you can cover it over the top, allowing for a'r, 

 and he will be safer and more comfortable. Asid'e from this, he is more liable 

 to be clean in hi habits, and will wait till he is let out into the yard In the 

 morning. Very few dogs will commit a nuisance in their sleeping box. 



And again suppose he is unlucky enough to get fleas on him, and this often 

 happens to a dog by having met a dog that did have them, you will find it much 

 easier to rid him of them than if he had been sleeping on a sofa or loose in the 

 house, for you could take his bedding out and clean or burn it. To get rid of fleas 

 is given under that heading. 



HOUSE BREAKING PUPPIES. When you buy a puppy and get it homA, don't 

 expect it to be house-broken, and you'll not be disappointed. It'e to<~> young to 

 know just what it ought to do, and you must give it time, a chance, and properly 

 educate it yourself. This can be done with every puppy, or grown dog either, out 

 you can't do it in a few hours, for it requires time and patience. 



You may have bought it as "house-broke/' and it may be that it was for 

 the home it has just left but needs re-breaking to a certain extent for its new 

 home, which will then not be nearly so hard to accomplish. 



Now. when your puppy makes a mistake, if it is old enough to punish, 

 catch it in the act; rub his nose in it, switch it, and run it out Cn the yard* 

 weather permitting (for you wouldn't, of course, put it out in the rain or snow). 

 Repeat this every time it does wrong, and it can soon be taught to be clean in its 

 habits. Never punish any puppy (or dog) except at the time of the wrong-doing, 

 so that it knows what it is being punished for. 'By running it out of doors 

 everv time, it soon gets to understand that there is the place to attend to 

 nature's calls. Have patience, and it won't be very long till ycm have a well- 

 behave 1 dog. Some are much easier to break than others. I don't advocate too 

 much or severe whipping, as in some cases it will cow the dog, and if so will take 

 a long time to get it over this. Most puppies at. two months old will understand 

 that they have, done wrong by the punisnment. As it gets older make it a point 

 to put it out the last thing at night and the first thing in the morning, and give 

 it frequent yard opportunities during the day. Use judgment and forbearance 

 "as well, and reason with and talk to it they soon get to understand. If weather 

 is bad, at night or in the morning, for that time put it in the cellar or some cov- 

 ered outhouse or shed. 



If you have a female and raise a litter of puppies at home, here is a good plan 

 that I follow in the kennel, and when I sell a puppy two to three months old, it is 

 already "kennel broken," and then very easy to house-break when its owner gets 

 it home. I have stalls made, enclosed by a gate, and in front of the box or part 

 of the stall fitted up for the bitch to whelp in, I have a galvanized iron pan to fit 

 the other part of the stall, and this pan I cover over the bottom with sawdust 

 for the puppies to go into as soon as they are old enough. The mother cleans 

 up after her puppies 'till they are four or five weeks old, and then they will 

 naturally and very quickly get into the habit of going into the sawdust when 

 nature prompts them. The example set by the first one to go in will soon be 

 followed by its brothers and sisters, as it is a dog's natural inclination to hunt 

 a place. You can follow this plan when your bitch has puppies by simply making 

 a low wooden box with a sheet of tin for a bottom to it, which will answer for one 

 litter all right enough, and if your bitch has whelped in a box in your house, you 

 can fix up a little fence made out of lathes that will cost but a trifle, and answer 



