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easier to take care of, as the attendant does not 
have to stoop so far to get into the interior of 
the hutch and the measure of additional pro- 
‘ection afforded will certainly pay for the extra 
expense. 
There is nothing that can offer the discour- 
agement that a raid from some neighbor’s dogs 
can. In my own case I have had as many as 
twenty-five fine, husky, pedigreed and regis- 
tered rabbits in the back yard, all worth at 
least $10 each, many of which I had refused to 
sell at any price, destroyed in one raid in just 
one evening’s absence from home. The dogs 
never eat the bunnies—just seem to hunt them 
for the sport (?) there is init. But Experience 
keeps a dear school, and I soon learned to stop 
this nuisance by building the hutches right and 
by taking other precautions which will be men- 
tioned later in this book. 
Build your hutches of good lumber. This 
does not necessarily mean that it must be the 
most expensive lumber that you can find. It 
may be-second-hand lumber. The point is that 
