SIMPLE RECIPES FOR CANINE ILLS, S3S 



scraps from the table, make the best food , provided they contain but little meat . 

 Bones should not be small enough to be swallowed. Bones contain phosphate of 

 lime, which is essential to proper nourishment, and also scour the teeth and keep 

 them clean. Feed but once, or, at most, twice a day, at stated hours. 



Sprat's Biscuit, three per day, raay be fed dry, but should also be frequently 

 broken up and made into broth ; the diet may be varied twice a week with a mess 

 of boiled food, containing vegetables, meal, and meat. 



Carefully avoid carrion. It impairs the nose, imparts a disagreeable odor to 

 the animal, and may breed entozoa. 



Ment. — When dogs have become habituated to eating meat, to break them of the 

 habit, offer other food twice a day, regularly, for five minutes at a trial. They 

 will soon come to terms. 



Food for Young Puppies. — Bread and milk, the latter boiled, oatmeal, or corn 

 bread, until three or four months old ; if refused, try bread panada and milk, or 

 fine grits well boiled. 



'Washing Old Dogs. — Once a week is often enough to wash large dogs. If they 

 have access to water they will bathe as often as they desire, and will not require 

 washing unless troubled with fleas. 



Washing Puppies.— \t is not safe to wash puppies in cold weather; they are 

 liable to take cold, which would result in distemper, and the disease might then 

 go through the whole kennel. 



Washing Eyes. — Always after hunting in upland grass or clover, especially in 

 the late summer and autumn, wash the eyes of the dog with lukewarm water and 

 castile soap. They get full of seeds, pollen and fuzz, and inflame. 



iScasow.— Bitches come to heat at the age of thirteen to twenty months : the 

 periods afterward vary from six to eight months. 



At the agfe of six years any dog is unfit for breeding purposes. 



A dog IS truly valuable for stock purposes only for two and a half or three 

 years ; the bitches for four years or more, or say, nme heats. All bitches should 

 be impregnated previous to the age of three years. 



JBfeat.— Is indicated by swelling and bleeding of the parts. 



To Produce Heat.—"'- Dinks " suggests tincture of cantharides, in doses of five 

 drops ; out its use is not approved of. 



To Prevent Heai. — Give five-grain doses of powdered exsiccated alum, dis- 

 solved in water. Give at first indication of cestrum, and continue three days. If 

 it does not answer by that time, there is no use continuing it. It is "a very un- 

 certain remedy at the best. 



.Breerfirtf/.— Bitches should not be bred the first titneof coming in season ; and 

 not oftener than once a year, or every other time of comingf in season. 



Apparent Sterility. — Apparent sterility is often removed by a change of dog 

 on the next time of coming in heat. 



i8pa7/infir.~A pup should be spayed when from five to six weeks old. The 

 operation should be performed only by skillful hands. If not operated on at a 

 proper age they become very fat. 



spaying after Whelping.— h. bitch spayed after having whelped, will take on 

 fat. 



Mem.—T. A setter bred to a dog of a different kind will probably show the 

 markings in future litters which she may throw. 



2. A pointer makes a much better watch-dog than a setter. The latter is the 

 most desirable for children and the household. 



WIielpinff.~li is unwise to destroy an entire litter at birth. Leav^one puppy 

 to suckle for a week or two, when it also can be taken away. Bathe the teats in 

 warm vinegar. 



Caked 7>a/f.— Caused by the milk not being properly dried in the glands. 

 Give the gland support if possible, and rub with camphor liniment. 



Distended TVa^j.— Distended and elongated teats are not unusual with bitches 

 which have not been with dog. Give exercise without fatigue, a low diet, clean 

 bed, proper ventilation, and apply a little camphor-water externally. 



Deficient Mii/c.—'Eiffht puppies are too many for a bitch to nurse, unless she is 

 remarkably strong. When the puppies show weakness in the loins, it is a sign 

 that the milk is deficient. The excess of progeny should be destroyed, and the 

 dam fed with the most nourishing food. 



C/mlfilical /fernia.— Indications: A small bladder-like protrusion about the 

 size of a bean, which seems to be filled with wind, and when pressed disappears, 

 but presently returns. It appears not only on very young puppies, but on puppies 

 even as old, or older, than fifteen months. Treatment : It the puppies are weaned, 



