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CHAPTER XIII. 



Rearing the Whelps Best Time to choose them Question as to Rearing at 

 Home or 'at Walk' Time and Mode of Feeding Necessity for Change 

 of Diet Teething After Twelve Months of Age, require only Feeding 

 once a Day The Evening the best Time to Feed Necessity for Daily 

 Exercise Plenty of Bones should be given Table of the Weights at various 

 Ages Undue Severity deprecated Best Diet for the Greyhound Flesh 

 and Bread Mode of making Bread without Barm Other and cheaper 

 Diets sometimes used Removal of Dew Claws. 



THE young courser must not now hug himself with the idea 

 that his task is happily ended because he has obtained a beau- 

 tiful litter of whelps, six weeks old, and the produce even of 

 the best blood in England on the side of both sire and dam. 

 They have yet an ordeal to go through, in which, without 

 good management, and, what is more, good luck, all his hopes 

 will be disappointed. That ordeal is the process of rearing, 

 with its many attendant risks, at the time of weaning, or from 

 distemper or worms, or from the numerous accidents to which 

 so fragile an animal is subject. One of the most anxious periods 

 is that of weaning, when the young stomach has to be accus- 

 tomed to other food than that provided by nature. But by 

 commencing to give thickened milk and broth at the third 



