38 DOGS. 



this as it may, the animal is subject to it, however 

 induced; and rarely indeed does it survive its fatal 

 attack. 



Symptoms. The dog, in the commencement of 

 this disease, loses his sportiveness, and seems labour- 

 ing under an evident discomfort and unsettledness of 

 purpose and great irritibility; and though he may 

 still obey his master,s call, he seems to do it unwil- 

 lingly, and without the usual fawning or desire to 

 please. If a dog or a cat come in its way, it will 

 snap at it, and bite it; and if provoked by a stick or 

 any other thing, it will eagerly seize and shake it 

 with great violence. It loses its appetite, and if 

 food be offered it, it will either refuse it, or eat a 

 little, but with evident reluctance; it will, however, 

 gnaw any thing within reach, as straw, wood, or any 

 pieces of rubbish; and its appetite is sometimes 

 so depraved, that it will devour its own excrements, 

 or any trash it may meet with. The thirst induced 

 by the fever, causes it to often lap water, though 

 sometimes he cannot swallow it, from a painful con- 

 vulsive motion of the muscles of the throat, and 

 then he refuses it altogether. He is often sick at the 

 stomach, and his bowels are generally very confined 

 throughout the disease. 



In a day or two after the first appearance of the 

 disease, the symptoms increase, and the dog often 

 becomes fierce and furious. Now, unless chained up, 

 (which he should be, the moment the symptoms 

 appear) his restlessness increases, he leaves home, 

 and runs along, biting any and every thing he meets 

 with, but rarely turns out of his way to do so. His 

 ears are lowering, and tail drawn inward between his 

 legs; and the tongue hangs out, covered with saliva. 



