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animal food, when hard work is before him ; and 

 although all animals of prey — lions, tigers, wolves, 

 foxes, and wild dogs — feed only once in the 

 twenty-four hours, yet, as they live entirely upon 

 flesh and bones, their food requires some time for 

 digestion, and they generally remain in a quiescent 

 state during the w^hole day. This rule, therefore, 

 cannot be applicable to dogs in an artificial state, 

 particularly when their frames are subjected to 

 such protracted exertions ; and I am quite satis- 

 fied, from practical experience, that every sport- 

 ing dog during the season should be fed twice 

 a- day, morning and evening, and on the very 

 best and strongest food, mixed up quite thick ; 

 quality, not quantify , being of paramount import- 

 ance. 



To hounds which become he mid-sick, losins: 

 their condition, and showing symptoms of attenu- 

 ation and decay, a few weeks' exemption from the 

 kennel dietary, if allowed to run at large and eat 

 raw meat and bones, induces perfect renovation of 

 health and vigour, which at once, I think, proves that 

 the system I advocate in feeding is most natural 

 and conducive to longevity in the canine species ; 

 and I never shall think otherwise of the thin washy 

 food generally given to fox-hounds, but as weaken- 

 ing to their digestive organs, and therefore irrecon- 



