268 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



terminating in the lethargic ease which characterises 

 mortification. 



No treatment can save the life, and all the measures 

 justifiahle are such as would alleviate the sufferings of 

 the animal ; hut as, in the majority of these cases, the 

 fact is only ascertained after death, the practitioner must 

 in a great measure he guided hy the symptoms. 



Inteosusception. — This is when a portion of intes- 

 tine slips into another part of the alimentary tuhe, and 

 there becomes fixed. Oolic always precedes this, for 

 the accident could not occur unless the bowel was in 

 places spasmodically contracted. The symptoms are — 

 colic, in the first instance, speedily followed by enteritis, 

 accompanied by a seeming constipation, that resists all 

 purgatives, and prevails up to the moment of death. 

 The measures would be the same as were alluded to 

 when writing of strangulation. 



Stoppage. — To this the dog is much exposed. These 

 animals are taught to run after sticks or stones, and to 

 bring them to their masters. When this trick has been 

 learnt, the creatures are very fond of displaying their 

 accomplishment. They engage in the game with more 

 than pleasure ; and as no living being is half so enthusi- 

 astic as dogs, they throw their souls into the simple' 

 sport. Delighted to please their lords, the animals are 

 in a fever of excitement ; they back and run about — 

 their eyes on fire, and every muscle of their frames in 

 motion. The stone is flung, and away goes the dog at its 

 topmost speed, so happy that it has lost its self-com- 



