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your friends may praise, but dare not pat; he will lose all beauty of form, all 

 sprightl.ness and elasticity of action and become an unshapely, asthmatical lump 

 of obesity, to whom the slightest exertion is a trouble. Ladies, who are the great 

 offenders in this way should remember that dogs are not valued like prize hogs 

 for their fatness, and that they are never so healthy and happy as when in good 

 working condition that is, when they can take a good gallop without puffing. 



KENNEL DON'TS. 



Don't breed a bitch until the colored discharge has ceased. 



Don"t breed a valuable stud dog several times to one season. One service is 

 just as good if not better than half a dozen. 



Don't wash the bitch while in whelp. If she should get wet, out shooting for 

 instancy, see that she has a warm bed and rub her down before she retires. 



Don't, give your dogs hot food; it is not natural, injures their teeth and leads 

 to indigestion. 



Don't prevent a bitch that is in whelp from eating whatever she pleases, 

 though if you find she has a penchant for filthy matter, carrion and other flotsam 

 and jetsam of the street let her have her way or, better give her sulphur in her 

 feed. 



Don't send your bitches into wa'ter while in whelp at any rate not after the 

 fourth week. 



Don't keep your bitches in whelp chained up or kenneled continually, they 

 should have plenty of gentle walking exercise every day, especially the last three 

 weeks before whelping. 



Don't neglect to feed your brood bitches with every food that will strengthen 

 and stimulate the mother in the trying periods of pregnancy and while suckling 

 pups. It is impossible for a hen to cover the egg meat with hard shell unless it 

 have access to lime and other shell producing matter. So with the bitch; when 

 her puppies are required to show bone this state is greatly aided by supplying 

 bone producing foods. Precipitated phosphate of lime should be given to the 

 bitch in her food during the last weeks of pregnancy and after whelping and then 

 'to the puppies until two or three months old. Half a teaspoonfui daily to a pup 

 is sufficient. 



Don't, if you can avoid it, keep your bitches in whelp in kennels or yards 

 where they must continually jump up on their hind legs in order to look upon the 

 outer world; have open wire or slats for fencing and divisions. If you must 

 have solid partitions build them so high that the bitch will never attempt to jump 

 up in order to look over. More puppies are slipped and more bitches miss from 

 this abnormal exercise than most breeders imagine. 



Don t wash a dog and then allow it to run around and dry itself. If you take 

 enough interest in 'the dog to wash it, you should not be too lazy to dry him after- 

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