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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



Youni,^ dogs should be given much milk, with their work. Horse flesh, beef, and mutton 

 or without water, and sometimes a little whey. are good for them, provided the meat is fresh 

 What is left from the table or from restaurant and not fat. In the great kennels broth is 

 dinners, like moistened ci'usts, sour potatoes, often made of calves' heads and feet. Rice 

 the skins and heads of fish, and such things as is an excellent food, and mi.xed with codfish is 

 we hear people sa\', "Oh! the dog will eat a fa\'orite winter food for dogs that are not 

 that," are certainly swallowed by him, ^^^^^^^^^^^ pampered. Frf)m time to time a little 

 but the results are diseases of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ cod-liver oil (which can be ob- 

 skin of the intestines, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H^^^^^^^ tained in biscuit form) puri- 

 and ^^^|^^H^^^^^^9^^^^^^^^^^^^k A'^^ the blood 

 bills from veterinaries. ^^^^^HPf^^^^^^HP^^^^^IH^^^^^k ^ to the 



If a dog will not eat J^^^^^^^^I^K^mSBSS^^^^^BK^^^^^ Over the food of young 

 potatoes without sauce, i^^^^^^B^|M'i|^fl|BKLi&r^«*wfl|B^^^^^^^ dogs and those nearly 

 give him no food until m^_ ^^^^^^^RfflBC^'' ' '^WmAmii ^^^B 1 "^dult a pinch of phos- 



crave it. Al- 

 ways g i v e a 

 dog less than 

 his stomach 

 demands. To 



tVkg^J^ 



bone dust 

 should be scat- 

 tered. Dogs 

 like to gnaw 

 tender bones, 

 which help to 

 strengthen 



' '"^^'Pt m IxijisPEXSAHLE AkIICLI'.S FOR THE KeXNEL A.\D WaKDROKE OF DOGS 



cfood health a 



dog should never timi from his ])late till he has their own bony structure ; they bury a bone to 



licked it clean with pleasure. When he leaves make it tender, but it sometimes happens that 



any food upon it, it is a sign that he has eaten a hard bone is thrown to a puppy, and this is 



too much. Two meals a day are sufficient, — al\va}'s injurious. What the dog needs to find 



one cold in the morning, and the other hike- now and then on his diet list is grass — just 



warm in the afternoon. Pups should 



be fed three or four times 



a day, and they ought to ^, '' 



have twice as much 



milk as \'egetables 



Food should nex'cr 



be hot, for a dog 



dislikes as much 



as a man to bui'n 



his tongue, but he 



is not cautious 



enough to refrain 



from gul|)ing down a half 



boiling mess. 



Every dog, being boi'n carni\- 





A Dog ought to eat with 

 Pleasuke 



common grass. He often goes in 

 search of it himself, and eats 

 -..> it like a famished cow. 

 '■ ^*>, Once a month he must 

 be made to take a 

 vermifuge mixed 

 ' "" *i with his milk and 

 given preferably 

 J when he is fasting 

 A \'ermifuge in bis- 

 cuit form, a teaspoon- 

 ful of calomel, ov an)' of 

 the \-ermifuges advertised 

 in the papers do good service 

 when the ailment is merel)' earth- 

 worms, with which nearl)- all dogs 

 are troubled, just as the)- are h\ 



orous, ought to have meat ; but 



it is impossible to fix the e.xact 



quantity he should receive withf)Ut considering threadworms. Visible emaciation and the rub- 



his form and the c(jnditions undei" which he bing of the hind parts on the ground show the 



lives. Draft dogs and hounds which hunt and iiresence of these mischief-makers. But dogs 



course ought to have meat in proportion to can ha\'e other species of worms that may be 



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