The Care of Domesticated Animals 
upon the skins of animals. There are several 
good patent brushes on the market suitable 
for dogs and cats, and these can be obtained 
either hard or soft, according to the animal 
for which it is required. 
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THE troubles of puppyhood are many and 
various, but they would be 
greatly lessened if people 
understood better how to feed 
and manage puppies. Very few people 
amonest the general public understand how 
to rear puppies, nor do they know much 
about the peculiar troubles mcidental to the 
early life of a dog. The ‘first most critical 
time is when the puppy. is weaned; the 
change from the mother’s milk to the various 
foods which a puppy gets m the average 
household is often too great, and causes 
general disorganisation. The most suitable 
food for a puppy when weaned is milk; care 
should be taken that he does not have too 
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much starchy biscuit food. The puppy should 
in any case not be taken away suddenly, but 
be weaned gradually ; the age of a month is 
the earliest time at which the weaning 
process should begin. Besides milk, small 
quantities of chopped raw lean meat may be 
given, and by degrees the puppy can be got 
on to more general foods. Puppies are often 
subject to what is known as the “teething” 
fit; this occurs when the puppy is changing 
its teeth. The first teeth are usually complete 
at from two and a half to three months, then 
at four to five months old these begin to be 
replaced by the permanent teeth; there is 
always more or less disturbance of the system 
at this age, and distemper and other troubles 
are likely to occur at the same time. Nothing 
is better for a puppy’s teeth than a good big 
bone to gnaw. A bone helps the first teeth 
to come through and then helps to get md of 
them when the permanent ones begin to force 
their way up. 
FOXHOUND PUPPIES. 
