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yard. I think, also, that it would be better if all large 

 dogs had kennels made according to Spratt's designs. 



Mr. Shaw, in his book, speaking of how bad draughts 

 are for dogs and how the ordinary kennel is full of draughts, 

 suggests that the entrance hole should be placed at the 

 side instead of at the end, and that the sides should be 

 made movable so that the kennel may be well cleaned 

 and washed with disinfectants. In cold weather an old 

 sack should be nailed on at the entrance, so as to form a 

 curtain to prevent snow or rain penetrating inside. 



Treatment of Sick Dogs 



Many patients fall victims either to indifference or 

 disobedience of orders in illness. Physic is of no use, and 

 frequently harmful, if the patient is neglected. With good 

 nursing the dog may recover with little or no medicine; 

 without it, it will die. By good nursing let it be under- 

 stood that the same nursing given to a hiiman being should 

 be carried out for the animal. There should be perfect 

 ventilation and plenty of pure air, a comfortable bed with- 

 out draught, extreme cleanliness, with good and proper 

 food, which should be made very tempting. If a dog refuses 

 food, take the food away and bring it fresh, and set before it 

 after a little while, and so on, till the poor sick dog takes it up. 

 If dog-owners think it is too much trouble to look after their 

 dogs they had much better not keep any. Dogs are very 

 nervous creatures, and therefore it is most essential attention 

 should be paid to the details of nursing them in illness. 



There are many persons who often require temporary 

 homes for their dogs, and also a hospital when sick, as one 

 constantly finds people who keep dogs, and are really fond 

 of them, but who are quite at sea in canine maladies ; and 

 these persons can find both a home and a hospital at 

 Spratts' Sanitorium at Beddington, in which there is ac- 

 commodation for a hundred dogs, each dog having a separate 

 kennel, ranging from six feet by three in size for small 



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