mode of treatment, is to be unhesitatingly declined. The 

 friendly desire of any one who may express his wiUingness to 

 ram down the prostrate animal's throat a choice and secret 

 specific must be strenuously declined. Get the dog home with 

 all lipped." 



Arrived home, should the fit continue, send at once for a 

 veterinary surgeon, as any medicine you can administer will be 

 useless — or worse, because the animal being unconscious cannot 

 swallow, and yon may chance to suffocate the creature for 

 whose welfare you are so soKoitous. Should the fit be got over, 

 all you can do is to take care that the dog's bowels are in good 

 working order, and keep it cool and quiet for a day or two, 

 on low diet. 



• INDIGESTIOir. 



From this malady arises the majority of the complaints that 

 afflict dog-kind. All kinds of skin diseases are bred therefrom, 

 and inflammation of the gums, foul teeth, and pestilent breath, 

 are produced from it. It is the origin of asthma, excessive fat, 

 cough, and endless other ailments. 



Luckily the symptoms are not very obscure. " A dislike for 

 wholesome food, and a craving for hotly-spiced or highly- 

 sweetened diet is an indication. Thirst and sickness are more 

 marked. A love for eating string, wood, thread, and paper 

 denotes the fact, and is wrongly put down to the prompting of 

 a more mischievous instinct ; any want of natural appetite, or 

 any evidence of morbid desire in the case of food, declares the 

 stomach to be disordered. The dog that, when offered a piece 

 of bread, smells it with a sleepy eye, and, without taking it, 

 Kcks the fingers that present it, has an impaired digestion.! 

 Such an animal wiU perhaps only take the morsel when it is 

 about to be withdrawn ; and having got it, does not swallow 

 it, but places it on the ground and stands over it with an air 

 of peevish disgust. A healthy dog is always decided. It will 

 often take that which it cannot eat, but having done so, it 

 either throws the needless possession away, or lies down, and 

 with a determined air watches the property. There is no 

 vexation in its looks, no captiousness in its manner. It eats 

 wit! decision, and there is purpose in what it does. The 

 reverse is the case with dogs suffering from indigestion." 



The old-fashioned remedy for this complaint — at least among 

 Jog-quacks — was to shut the pampered animal in a room by 

 himself, and give him nothing but water for two, three, or four 



