IHE BOG. 



Concerning " scraps," too, tlie last-quoted, authority has 

 something instructive to comnmnicate. " However strict may 

 be the orders, and however sincere may be the disposition to 

 observe them, scraps will fall ; bits will be thrown down ; 

 dishes will be placed on the ground; and sometimes affection 

 wiQ venture to offer 'just a little piece,' which no one could 

 call feeding. It is astonishing how much wiU in this way be 

 picked up, for the dog that lies most before the kitchen fire 

 is generally the fattest, laziest, and at feeding-time the best 

 behaved of the company. Consequently, no dog should be 

 allowed to enter the kitchen, for their arts in working upon 

 mortal frailty can only be met by insisting on their absence. 

 The dog that is well fed and not crammed should not refiise 

 bread when it is offered. If this be rejected, while sugar is 

 snapped eagerly, it will be pretty certain either that the 

 animal is too much indulged, or that its health requires 

 attention." 



BOG-WASHING. 



Dogs if properly treated will but seldom requii-e washing. 

 Frequent washing, especially where soap, soda, &c., is used, 

 renders the hair harsh and rough, and much more liable to 

 catch the dirt than the hair of the dog treated as a rule by the 

 dry process. All that is required is a comb with a fine and 

 a coarse end, and a stiff brush. It should be combed and brushed 

 regularly every morning, and if it is allowed to get its coat 

 muddied the mud should stay on till it is quite dry, when it 

 may be dusted and brushed out without leaving a stain. 



An occasional wash will be beneficial, but in the coldest 

 weather the chill only should be taken off the water, and the 

 yolk of an egg used instead of and in the same manner as soap. 

 Many a thin-skinned dog, could it but speak, might tell of the 

 agonies it had endured through the application of coarse soap 

 to its sensitive body. His eyes smart, his skin bums, and if 

 in the event of your not thoroughly rinsing the latter from it 

 he attempts to finish off with a few licks of his tongue, he is 

 made sick and ill. If egg be used all these difficulties may be 

 obviated. As useful a lather as soap lather is produced, it 

 does not bum the animal's skin, and if he wishes to " plume" 

 himself, after his nature, he wiU not be made ill. A small 

 dog, say a Skye terrier, will not require more than the yolk of 

 a single egg. 



Never use luke or even warm water in dog-washing; nothing 



