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required of them all at once: a little rest, is very 

 requisite to them as well as to their masters. 



Dogs employed in watching premises should not 

 be needlessly exposed to the damp or cutting night 

 winds; but should be provided with a comfortable 

 wooden house, with a litter of clean straw; and 

 placed free from exposure to the wind, and in as dry 

 a situation as possible. If kept in the dwelling- 

 house, the dog should have a place appropriated to 

 his night's rest: this may be an open box, or a 

 basket, with a piece of carpet or blanket, or clean 

 straw at the bottom: if either of the former, it 

 should be often beaten, to free it from fleas or nits, 

 which soon infest it, and frequently washed and dried. 



Damp is exceedingly injurious to dogs, as well as 

 to many other animals, and is very likely to produce 

 rheumatism and other causes of lameness in the 

 shoulders and limbs. Fresh air, frequently-changed 

 straw, and good exercise, will tend to preserve dogs 

 in health, to which indeed cleanliness is indispensible. 



If care be taken with a dog while young, it may 

 be trained to do almost any thing, to come or go as 

 desired, to fetch and carry, to lie immoveably still 

 when spoken to, and to be silent at a look or word of 

 command; in all these respects, dogs are very 

 susceptible of instruction, and readily fall into and 

 adopt the particular habits inculcated by any course 

 of training. Above all, in a house or yard-dog, 

 good manners should be especially enforced; he 

 should be taught to be silent or to lie down when 

 spoken to, to refrain from leaping up on the laps of 

 visitors and others, and to conduct himself sub- 

 missively. To teach a Dog to behave as he ought 

 to do, in those and other respects, his master should 

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