42 The Dog Book 



place and fastened at night. Two of these windows, which are hothouse 

 sash and slide open, will admit enough light, and three might thus be covered 

 permanently during the winter and give less trouble than the suggested 

 swinging covers. The raising and lowering of the doors to the yards is 

 controlled by the cords shown in the photograph as extending to the passage- 

 way above the height of the wire netting. 



Previous to altering the interior of this house we had already put up 

 a six-foot-high outside inclosure, sixteen by forty, with a ten-foot reserve 

 at the far end for the chickens which might arrive. The cash outlay for two 

 rolls of netting and lumber for that was about eleven dollars. The labour 

 was home talent. The house altering was put into the hands of a carpenter, 

 and in his bill of forty-eight dollars some extra work and material was in- 

 cluded pertaining to a tennis-court whi6h probably offset the first outlay for 

 the outside work, and our reckoning is that the whole business cost fifty 

 dollars, but that of course is only alterations to the original house. 



The barn photograph shows an adaptation of the ideas of Mr. Thomas 

 and the box arrangements at Mr. Gooderham's kennels. The boxes were 

 the travelling-boxes the dogs came across the Atlantic in. Two were cut 

 with holes like those at the Toronto kennels, but this was abandoned because 

 the dogs kept continually barking, mainly at each other, while it was found 

 that dogs shut up entirely were quiet. It will be noticed that the boxes 

 are placed on strips of four-inch stuff, and the strip in front is placed 

 sufficiently far back to admit of the sweepings of the box to fall in front 

 of it through an opening about two inches by six, cut in what is, as they 

 lie on their backs, the bottom of the box. Every morning when a dog 

 is Uberated his box is swept clean, and at the left-hand corner of the front 

 of the second box from the left may be seen the sweepings from that box. 

 When all are cleaned the floor is swept with a broom and the business is 

 complete. No dogs are kept continually in these boxes, but are changed 

 with the dogs in the other kennels, or liberated into the large top floor of 

 the barn during the day, and all have two good long walks and runs daily. 

 Their advantage as sleeping-boxes is unquestionable, for the dogs are quiet 

 and therefore sleep well. 



Another Americanism in the way of working out ideas suitable for the 

 necessities of the case is seen in the Russian Wolfhound kennels of Dr. De 

 Mund at Bath Beach. The most of Dr. De Mund's dogs are kept at 

 Saddle River, N. J., with Mr. Nichols as partner in charge, but a few are 



