112 Doas 



Let them have plenty of water and a little tea — dogs love 

 tea. It is a mistake to put a lump of sulphur in their 

 water, as it is perfectly indissoluble, and they dislike the 

 look of it besides. When sulphur is given, it should be 

 given in the form of flour of sulphur, and sprinkled over 

 their food. Charcoal biscuits should be given to dogs 

 occasionally — they purify the system — or a little powdered 

 charcoal may be sprinkled in their food. 



Though dogs should have two meals a day, care must 

 be taken that their living is not too high. Pet dogs 

 which are indulged in rich and luxurious living and seldom 

 given exercise rarely live to a good old age, and are 

 especially liable in that case to asthma or apoplexy, or 

 grow so unwieldy that their lives are not only a burden 

 to themselves, but to all around them. Toy dogs should 

 never have bones. They should he fed in the middle of 

 the day on a mixture of bread, vegetables, and a little 

 meat, from 3 oz. to 3^ oz., soaked in gravy, and in the 

 evening give half a Spratt pet-dog biscuit soaked in gravy. 



Out-of-Door Dogs 



The best bed for dogs is hay or straw, and the floor of 

 the house or shed should be strewed with peat-moss litter, 

 so that all impurities may be absorbed and the odour 

 rendered more easily removed. Plenty of Sanitas or Jeyes' 

 disinfectant should be used, the floors, beds, and all wood- 

 work sprinkled with it every other day, and every kennel 

 and yard scoured out once a week ; and twice a year the 

 kennels and sheds should be whitewashed with lime white- 

 wash, with which carbolic acid should be mixed. Some 

 people use a little paraffin oil put into the whitewash 

 mixture, as a certain death for fleas, &c. 



Enamelled iron water-troughs should be used, as they 

 can be rinsed out daily, and in hot weather twice a day ; 

 the food-troughs kept perfectly clean and well scrubbed. 



It is, to my thinking, a great mistake to keep dogs 

 chained. Iron fencing is much better to fence round the 



