346 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



In some cases the pills first recommended may be 

 given with the drops last proposed ; but the action must 

 be watched, and either the dose diminished or the medi- 

 cine withheld, if it appears to have any violent effect. 

 The intent is to work gently and gi-adually upon the 

 system, and no immediate result should be expected or 

 desired. 



Parturition, or Pupping. — This is a very serious 

 branch of the present subject ; for, through the inability 

 to bring forth their young, many a valuable bitch is 

 annually lost ; and, by the injudicious measures intended 

 to relieve them, many more are yearly sacrificed. I 

 know of no book that gives proper directions for the 

 guidance of the practitioner ; indeed, the rules laid 

 down by both Blaine and Youatt are calculated to do 

 mischief whenever they shall be put into practice. The 

 reader must, therefore, be content to accept that which 

 will be submitted to his consideration on this topic, as 

 the result of the experience of an individual whose 

 observations have been made only during a compara- 

 tively short period, and whose opinions consequently are 

 not to be regarded as confirmed. While directing atten- 

 tion to what has been declared rejected, the author 

 solicits no confidence in his judgment, beyond that which 

 results shall sanction, and reason approve. 



Little gentlemen are said to incline towards what are 

 termed fine women ; and many persons will remember 

 the caricature, in which a strapping Life-guards-man was 

 depicted, stooping to salute a lady who scarcely reached 



