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is admirable for this purpose, as also is 
the Maisonette, designed by Mrs. Handley 
Spicer. The dog-room should have a fire- 
place or an anthracite stove, for use in win- 
ter or during illness, and, of course, it must 
be well ventilated and be open to the sun- 
light. A Parish’s cooker is a most useful 
addition to the equipment, especially when 
a kennel maid is employed. There should 
be lockers in which to keep medicine, spe- 
cial foods, toilet requisites, and feeding 
utensils, a water-tap and sink, and a table 
for grooming operations. The floor of 
such a room is best kept clean with Sanitas 
sawdust. For bedding, Elastene wood- 
wool is to be recommended. It is ab- 
sorbent, antiseptic, clean and comfortable. 
Even delicate toy-dogs, however, ought 
not to be permanently lodged within doors, 
and the dog-room is only complete when 
it has as an annexe a grass plot for play- 
ground and free exercise. Next to whole- 
some and regular food, fresh air and sun- 
shine are the prime necessaries of healthy 
condition. Too much coddling and pam- 
pering is bad for all breeds. It is to be 
remembered that the dog is a domesticated 
wild animal, and that the most suitable 
treatment is that which nearest approxi- 
mates to the natural life of his ancestors. 
Weakness and disease come more fre- 
quently from injudicious feeding and 
housing than from any other cause. 
‘Among the free and ownerless pariah dogs 
of the East disease is almost unknown. 
It is necessary to insist upon suitable 
housing, Since even the scientific managers 
of our zoological gardens are not always 
blameless in this respect, for they have 
been known to keep Arctic dogs in cages 
exposed to the mid-day sun of a hot sum- 
mer, with the inevitable consequence that 
the animals have rapidly succumbed. All 
dogs can bear severe cold better than in- 
tense heat. 
For the kennels of our British-bred dogs, 
perhaps a southern or a south-western 
aspect is the best, but wherever it is placed 
the kennel must be sufficiently sheltered 
from rain and wind, and it ought to be pro- 
vided with a covered run in 
inmates may have full liberty. An awning 
of some kind is Trees afford 
good shelter from the sun-rays, but they 
which the 
necessary. 
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harbour moisture, and damp must be 
avoided at all costs. 
When only one outdoor dog is kept, a 
kennel can be improvised out of a packing- 
case, supported on bricks above the 
ground, with the entrance properly 
shielded from the weather. An old square 
zinc cistern is a good substitute for the 
old-fashioned and unsatisfactory _ barrel- 
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AND SWIVELS 
kennel, if it is proportionate to the dog's 
size. No dog should be allowed to live in 
a kennel in which he cannot turn round at 
full length. Properly constructed, port- 
able, and well-ventilated kennels for single 
dogs are not expensive, however, and are 
greatly to be preferred to any amateurish 
makeshift. A good one for a Terrier need 
not cost more than a pound. It is usually 
the single dog that suffers most from im- 
perfect accommodation. His kennel is 
generally too small to admit of a good bed 
of straw, and if there is no railed-in run 
attached he must needs be chained up. 
The dog that is kept on the chain becomes 
dirty in his habits, unhappy, and savage. 
His chain is often too short and is not 
provided with swivels to avert kinks. On 
a sudden alarm, or on the appearance of a 
trespassing tabby, he will often bound for- 
ward at the risk of dislocating his neck. 
The yard-dog’s chain ought always to be 
fitted with a stop link spring to counteract 
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the effect of the sudden jerk. If it is neces- 
sary for a dog to be chained at all, and this 
is doubtful, the most humane method is to 
bend a wire rope between two opposite 
walls or between two trees or posts, about 
seven feet from the ground. On the rope 
is threaded a metal ring, to which the free 
end of the dog’s chain is attached. This 
enables him to move about on a path that 
is only limited by the length of the wire 
rope, as the sliding ring travels with him. 
