HOW TO WASH A DOG. 209 



of doors that day if weather Is cold or wet, exercising the same care and pre- 

 caution you would for yourself after a bath. 



Now, as to soap. Don't consider that any soap will do for your dog, for it 

 won't if you value a fine coat on him. Many common soaps will injure and ruin 

 a dog's coat even more than they would your own skin if you used them. A cake 

 of dog soap will only cost a quarter and last for several baths, so it's not expen- 

 sive to use a good one, in fact is cheaper in the end. There is no dog soap "just 

 the same," or, quite so good as EBERHART'S. It is a different soap from any other, 

 containing one ingredient that no other dog soap ever made does contain this 

 one ingredient is a secret. There is no carbolic acid in my soap, as there is in 

 so many dog soaps, a dangerous ar'ticle to use.and quite so in a soap through 

 absorption. It is made in as careful and cleanly a manner as is any soap made 

 for our own use, and I just want to say here that no face soap made for people 

 is quite so good to use on your own face. As a dfcndiruff cure on your head 

 nothing made can surpass it, besides it is a hair grower, and a cure as well for 

 any scalp disease. A quarter pound bar of i't I can send you by mail for Twenty- 

 five Cents, or a dozen for $2.50, carriage paid. 



Spend at least ten minutes in thoroughly shampooing your dog, then rinse 

 and dry dog thoroughly. In summer weather a good walk, or a romp in a grassy 

 yard is a very good thing for the dog after a bath and it has been partially dried, 

 which saves you some labor as in turning the dog out in the yard; it will naturally 

 run and romp and finishing drying up. This plan can only work in warm, 

 sunshiny weather. If my soap is used to kill fleas or lice, both of which it 

 will do, then it must be used as directed for such cases the lather being allowed 

 to remain on for some time. Don't allow dog to rest or lie down till its coat is 

 absolutely dry, and never wash within two hours after it was fed. 



As to washing LONG COATED DOGS, that will often appear to be dry when 

 they are not, you must exercise great care. Fill a foot tub with lukewarm (not 

 hot) water, so that it reaches to the elbow of the dog, and beginning at head, cover 

 the entire body with soap suds, never letting the soap itself get, into the coat. 

 With a soft hair brush of long bristles, brush the hair with the soap suds down- 

 ward from the centre, until he is perfectly clean. Rinse out the coat with luke- 

 warm water, place the dog on a table, envelope in a soft towel, and smooth it from 

 the centre downward till he is absolutely dry. Never rume or rub the coat, or 

 you will spoil it; simply smooth it. 



To prevent a dog catching cold after a bath apply alcohol over the entire 

 body. Exercise after a bath will stimulate circulation. A very little cocoanut 

 oil, thinned with warm alcohol in the palm of the hand, rubbed over the coat, 

 will greatly improve it after washing. 



In lieu of winter baths with no risk to run as to catching cold, a good groom- 

 ing for ten miuutes with a stiff brush will accomplish all the good results of a 

 bath, and this you can do every day with great benefit to the dog. Grooming is 

 better and safer than baths in winter. In preparing dogs for a bench how pro- 

 fessional handlers groom their dogs every day for a month beforehand, and this 

 is why you always see show dogs with such fine coats. 



