THE DOG 



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The place where the pups hve must be by his kind as an r,ld fellow. At ten he is 

 often cleansed and disinfected, as they are far really an old do-, and thou-h he may li\e a 

 from cleanly themselves. The habit of cleanii- few years longer, the usual life of the domestic 

 ness must be taught to each puppy, one by dog lasts only ten or eleven years. The great- 

 est age on record is that of a spaniel who l)\'ed 

 to be t\venty-si.\ years old. It is remarkable 

 how (jld dogs, especially those who have given 

 proofs of perspicacity through life, retain their 

 intellectual faculties to the last. Leibnitz de- 

 clared that these animals nevei' whollv die ; 

 and according to the Scandinaxian mythology 

 the dog is the messenger of death. 



On the other hand, in our matter-fjf-fac t 

 epoch, a dead dog is dead ; and the first thing 

 to do is to take the body of that friend of 

 man and bury it. Dead dogs are sometimes 



How TO Lift .\ Yocng Do(; 



one ; they will not learn it in a body. In lift- 

 ing young dogs they should never be taken by 

 the neck, but always under and round the 

 body by both hands. 



They will soon become the victims of fleas, 

 which, in spite of all efforts, do infest all ani- 

 mals. The pups must be washed carefully, 

 but no disapproval of the use of tobacco water 

 or turpentine can be too severe. Neither is it 

 well to use kerosene, which will destroy no more 

 fleas than careful washing. Dotzer's Cream of 

 Parasites is now the universal remedy against 

 these pests ; it is also a preventive of eruptions 

 of all kinds. 



XI. Old Age 



Dogs are in their prime when three or four 

 years old. Until their sixth year they are 

 strong and healthy ; after that they decline, 

 and a dog that is eight years old is regarded 



How NO]- TO Lift Him 



thrown into the water, where the_\' float among 

 the reeds, and swarms of flies antl mosquitoes 

 disseminate germs that are certainh- injurious 

 and even poisonous. The proper wa\' of pre- 

 venting this would be to burn all bodies of 

 animals ; but so long as the cremation of man 

 makes slow progress, that of animals will be 

 slower still. We must, therefore, bury them. 



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