KENNEL MANAGEMENT OF DOGS. 235 
KENNEL MANAGEMENT OF DOGS. 
Brrore passing to the field, it will be necessary to lay 
before the beginner a few instructions for the care of his 
dogs at home; the feeding, lodging, exercising them, and 
getting them into or keeping them in condition, without 
which all is labor lost. 
Residents in cities have much difficulty both in lodg- 
ing and exercising their dogs suitably, especially in sum- 
mer, when the prevalence of the absurd, useless, brutal 
and demoralizing dog Jaws are in operation, making it 
almost impossible to take a dog beyond the precincts of 
his own guarded yard. 
I call these laws “absurd and useless,” because itis a 
notorious fact and an established medical truth, that dogs 
are not in any degree more liable to canine rabies in July 
than in January, perhaps less so. Whatever other causes 
do produce it, heat and thirst do not. Canine rabies is 
unknown in Grand Cairo and Constantinople, but common 
in Quebec with the thermometer at 40 below Zero. 
Besides this, twenty men die every year of kicks from 
