CHAPTER XIV. 



FERRETS AND RABBITS AGAIN. 



T\ISTEMPER is a most fatal disease to 

 LJ ferrets and means certain death to 

 them. You should never keep ferrets in a 

 dog kennel, for if your dogs get distemper the 

 ferrets are sure to catch it, and die ; if you 

 have fifty ferrets you will lose them all. 

 Ferrets should always be kept apart from 

 dogs, because they are subject to all the 

 diseases that dogs suffer from, as canker, 

 mange, distemper, &c. If any of your dogs 

 are suffering from distemper, the person who 

 attends to them should not go near the 



