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in some satisfactory manner. This always ensures a down- 

 current as well as an up-current, so that there is little or no neces- 

 sity for having the door open except for cleanliness, but in very 

 windy weather the ventilation on the side of the wind should be 

 closed, or tae down-draught will be enough to chill the greyhounds, 

 As these kennels are to be paved with a non-porous material, the 

 soil is not of much consequence, but the situation should be dry 

 and healthy, and the shade of a large tree is to be obtained if 

 possible. 

 The kennel management of the greyhound consists in little more 



Fig. 40. ELEVATION OF KENNEL. 



than the adoption of cleanliness, which should be of the most 

 scrupulous kind, together with regular feeding. Water is by some 

 people constantly left for them to get at, but others object to it for 

 dogs in training, and they then only give it with the food. My 

 own opinion is decidedly in favor of the constant supply, as it is 

 impossible to prevent these animals from getting to it when at ex- 

 ercise ; and I am sure that, when they are kept from it in-doors, 

 they take too much while they are out. On the contrary, if it is 

 regularly supplied to them, they take very little, and are quite care- 

 less about it at all times. 



