420 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



to sleep in the open air where he pleases outside of his 

 master's cottage, and has but little food, and very seldom 

 any flesh. I scarcely ever have a sporting dog sent to 

 me, on the approach of autumn, suffering from what 

 their masters are pleased to term "foul," but canker 

 within and without the ear are found to be included in 

 the so-called disorder. Often am I desired to look at 

 both long-haired and short-haired dogs, and find both 

 kinds victims to these diseases ; but canker without the 

 ear, or on the flap of the ear, I never see without canker 

 within the ear being also present. Canker on the flap 

 of the ear, it is true, becomes the worst in short-haired 

 dogs, because these animals have this part by nature 

 more exposed to injury. Long-haired dogs, on the other 

 hand, have the disease within the organ worst, because 

 the warmth of their coats serves to keep hot and to en- 

 courage the disorder. 



Therefore, we find on inquiry that neither breed of 

 dogs is more liable or more subject to be attacked by a 

 particular kind of canker ; though in each kind there ex- 

 ist circumstances calculated to give a direction to the dis- 

 ease when once established. Authors speak of rounding 

 the ear for external canker ; that is, of taking a portion 

 of the border away, so as to leave the flap of the ear the 

 less for the operation ; and fox-hounds are said to have 

 the ears rounded to escape the ravages of the disorder. 

 There are said to have been poor dogs subjected to 

 a second and third rounding ; till at length the entire 

 ear has been rounded away, and the wretched beast has 



