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teats, and becomes stale, in which state it is not fit for the 
whelps, and by many is supposed to engender worms. The puppies 
have always learned to lap, and will eat meat or take broth or 
thickened milk, as described in the last chapter; besides which, 
when they have no chance of sucking presented to them, they 
take other food better, whereas, if they are allowed to suck away 
at empty teats, they only fill themselves with wind, and then lose 
their appetites for food of any kind. But, having determined to 
wean them, there are several important particulars which must be 
attended to, or the result will be a failure, at all events for some 
time; that is to say, the puppies will fall away in flesh, and will 
cease to grow at the same rate as before. In almost all cases 
what is called the “milk-fat” disappears after weaning; but still 
it is desirable to keep some flesh on their bones, and this can only 
be done by attending to the following directions, which apply to 
dogs of all kinds, but are seldom rigidly carried out, except with 
the greyhound, whose size and strength are so important as to call 
for every care to procure them in a high degree. In hounds, as 
well as pointers and setters, a check in the growth is of just as 
much consequence ; but as they are not tested together as to their 
speed and stoutness so closely as greyhounds are, the slight defects 
produced in puppyhood are not detected, and, as a consequence, 
the same attention is not paid. Nevertheless, as most of these 
points require only care, and cost little beyond it, they ought to 
be carried out almost as strictly in the kennels of the foxhound 
and pointer as in those devoted to the longtails. .These chief and 
cardinal elements of success are—ist, a warm, clean, and dry 
lodging; 2dly, suitable food; 3dly, regularity in feeding; and 
‘athly, a provision for sufficient exercise. 
NECESSITY FOR WARM AND DRY LODGING. 
All puppies require a dry lodging, and in the winter season it 
should also be a warm one. Greyhound whelps, up to their third 
or fourth month, are sometimes reared in an artificial temperature, 
either by means of a stove or by using the heat of a stable, the 
temperature chosen being 60° of Fahrenheit. Beyond this age it 
