274 KENNELS AND KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 
FOXHOUND AND HARRIER KENNELS, &c. 
Unlike the greyhound kennel in many respects, that which we 
are now considering must be adapted for from thirty to a hundred 
couples of hounds, and the accommodation should therefore be more 
extensive, while a less degree of protection from the weather is 
desirable, because these hounds must be constantly exposed to long- 
continued wind and wet, and should therefore be hardened to them. 
The annexed description of the most desirable plan for kennels is 
chiefly derived from “ Scrutator,” who is, I believe, the most trust- 
worthy as well as the most recent writer on the subject. 
The kennel should be placed upon some high and dry situation ; 
the building should face the south, and there should be no large 
trees near it. To hunt three or four days a week, you will require 
about forty couples of hounds, according to the country. The 
lodging-rooms should be four in number, by which you will have a 
dry floor for the hounds to go on to every morning (the pack in 
the hunting season being in two divisions), instead of its being 
washed down whilst the hounds are left shivering in the cold on a 
bleak winter’s day, which I have seen done when the huntsman has 
been too busy to walk them out during this process. 
Nothing is more prejudicial to hounds than damp lodging-rooms 
—a sure cause of rheumatism and mange, to which dogs are pecu- 
liarly liable. I have seen them affected by rheumatism in various 
ways, and totally incapacitated from working ; sometimes they are 
attacked in the loins, but more often in the shoulders, both pro- 
ceeding either from a damp situation, damp lodging-room, or damp 
straw, often combined with the abuse of mercury in the shape of 
physic. In building kennels, therefore, the earth should be re- 
moved from the lodging-room floor to the depth of a foot at least, 
and in its place broken stones, sifted gravel, or cinders should be 
substituted, with a layer of fine coal-ashes, upon which the brick 
floor is to be laid, in cement or hot coal-ash mortar, taking care to 
use bricks which are not porous, or to cover them with a layer of 
cement, which last is an admirable plan. Outside the walls and 
close to them an air-drain about three feet deep should be con- 
structed, with a draining pipe of two inches bore at the bottom, and 
