The Dog in the House 39 
internal doors it is double and slides (as do nearly all of them), so that no 
matter if a dog gets loose, it is confined to the one room. Passing through 
the doorway we enter the first of the kennel rooms. Here a door facing 
leads to another long kennel, while one to the left-hand admits to the rainy- 
day, covered exercise-yard. The dodr in the left-hand corner gives access 
to a room at the back of the office for the use of the men. One cannot help 
noticing the perfect floor of narrow, light-coloured wood, which is scrupu- 
lously clean and as perfectly fitted as a piece of cabinet work. 
The inside fittings of this room resemble nothing more closely than 
the lockers of a rowing or athletic club with wire-fronted doors for ventila- 
tion and drying purposes. Each of these lockers or stalls is divided from 
its neighbours by a matched-board partition, and they are mainly thirty-six 
inches deep by twenty-six inches wide, though a few are slightly larger. 
They are meant to accommodate one dog, although two are put together 
when there is a lack of space. The bottom of the stall is about eighteen 
inches from the floor—a height convenient enough for terriers, as they can 
jump it without trouble. If you take out the straw you will find that the 
removable bottom is not tight, but has spaces between the narrow strips. 
The object of this is to allow whatever dirt the dog takes into his kennel to 
sift through the straw and these spaces to the floor,so as to form no breeding- 
place for vermin of any kind. It will be noted also from the photographs 
that the fronts of these stalls do not go down to the floor, but are so arranged 
that by the removal of a board at the bottom the floor can be swept as often 
as may be necessary to remove such dirt as sifts through the spaced floors of 
the stalls. 
The farther kennel is in part the same, but it is meant for larger and 
heavier dogs, and more conventional in having a bench and floor space. 
Here also we find the same excellent flooring that can be thoroughly cleaned 
and allows of no lodgment of dust or dirt. Disinfectants are used but little, 
reliance being placed upon the frequent washing and scrubbing with dis- 
infecting soft soap and hot water, and upon good ventilation. The latter 
is secured by having a strip of swinging-windows running the entire length 
of the kennel and opening at the ceiling, so that all the foul, heated air is 
liberated when the windows are opened. 
The method of exercising is as follows: When the men turn out at 
seven o'clock, the dogs are sent into one of two adjacent acre-fields, and it 
is surprising how many terriers are thus allowed at liberty together at this 
