214 EVERYTHING ABOUT DOGS. 



Don't because you can trust your house pet not to abuse your confidence, keep 

 him shut up in the house for hours. Some dogs are so refined in their habits that 

 they will suffer agonies rather 'than take advantage of your thoughtlessness. 



Don't forget that where a number of dogs are kept, regularity and system 

 should prevail. Insist that your kennelman have a certain hour for exercising, 

 grooming, and especially feeding. Slip-shod methods are just as productive ol' 

 non-success in dog-breeding as in any o'ther business undertaking. With regular 

 hours for different work, the dogs become settled in their habits, are not con- 

 tinually restless and on the move; consequently there is little noise and the neigh- 

 bors are <not disturbed. 



Don't, if you can help it, cook the kennel food in the same building occupied 

 by the dogs. The aroma of cooking unsettles them and the spirit of anxious 

 expectancy is often the forerunner of a fight, when a number of dogs are kept in 

 one compartment. 



Don't feed cornmeal day in and day out, as many kennelmen unfortunately 

 do. It is handy to cook and cheap, you say. It may be, but its constant use 

 heats the blood, lowers the system and eczema and mange too often follow as a 

 natural consequence. Never feed it in hot weather. 



Don't allow your very young puppies to run with the old dogs. Besides the 

 danger from injury in romping with heavier dogs there is also a danger of the 

 older dogs snapping at the youngsters and giving them a nip that will scare the 

 life out of them for a week or longer. 



Don't, in your eagerness to show off the gameness of some two or three 

 months old terrier enter him at a rat. A nip from the rodent, that he does not 

 understand, Will sometimes ruin a very young dog for future ratting. 



Don't throw a dog into water because he does not plunge in at command. If 

 you do, ten to one you will spoil his future as a water dog. Coax him to walk in 

 by degrees, but. better still, if possible, let him see some other dog swim out for 

 the stick; if not an inveterate coward he will soon enter into the fun of the thing 

 and the water. 



Don't feed liver and lights to your dog if you value their health. Such stuff 

 may fill an aching void for the time being, but there is no flesh producing sub- 

 stance fn it. The liver will disarrange the internals a.nd you may as well feed so 

 much sponge as the leathery indigestible lights. 



Don't forget the bones. Dogs kept in kennels have not as a rule a very. merry 

 time of it at best and a good big knuckle bone will serve to while away an odd 

 hour or two, besides cleaning the teeth and inducing a healthy flow of saliva. But 

 use discretion, avoiding chicken bones and small bones. 



Don't throw in one bone for two dogs. Reason obvious. Neither give a bone 

 to bitches suckling or running wf.th puppies; The maternal instinct is strong but 

 the mother while gnawing the bone is not to be depended upon and may give a 

 too venturesome and confiding puppy an ugly bite. 



Don't provide high sleeping benches for bitches in whelp, the lower the better 

 so that there may be no danger of incurring a strain which may cause a mis- 

 carriage. Have the entrance to the brood bitch kennel as wide as possible and easy 

 of access, with no corners to run round, when running in or out in a hurry the 

 bitch is liable to bump herself. And above all things avoid swinging doors. 



