48 The Dog Book 
sweet it is all right. With city kennels meat is an item that tells. Country 
kennels also get milk at a cheap rate, as a rule, and it should be known by 
all dog-fanciers that exhibitors of rabbits are strong believers in milk for 
putting a polish on the coat of their exhibition animals, so when procurable 
it may well be added to the kennel bill of fare. 
There has perhaps.been more discussion as to milk for dogs, particu- 
larly puppies, than anything else in the dietary line. Some hold that milk 
is a fruitful source of worms in puppies. The fact is, that there is milk and 
milk. Warm milk from the cow is a very different thing from cold skimmed- 
milk, and even the best of cow’s-milk is radically different from the milk 
of a bitch. 
Mr. A. J. Sewall, the London veterinarian, who makes dogs a specialty, 
has recently drawn the attention of English dog-owners to this difference in 
these milks, and he gives the following analysis of the two: 
Cow’s milk. Bitch’s milk. 
Watets chun seeveseeeu clase e584 87.4 66.3 
Pers caaiocua oaaweuwiaieeeses 4.0 14.8 
Sugar and soluble salts.........., 5.0 2.9 
Casein and insoluble salts........ 3.6 16.0 
When, therefore, you weaken the milk by skimming it, think of how 
the poor puppy must gorge itself in order to get the necessary nourishment 
in order merely to live, let alone thrive. 
In place of weakening the cow’s milk it should be enriched, either by 
concentration in the way of boiling and thus evaporating the water, or 
by adding eggs. It is remarkable how closely eggs and bitch’s milk agree in 
analysis, they being practically the same with the exception of the lack of 
sugar in eggs. Now, if one appreciates that he is substituting milk for 
eggs and milk, or in some cases skim-milk for eggs and milk, he will not be 
surprised at his puppies going wrong. 
A puppy has a small stomach, and what it gets from its dam is very rich 
food. Then, if left to herself the dam would, as soon as her flow of milk 
fell off, disgorge half-digested meat, and this the puppies would eat. Their 
food would be almost entirely half-digested meat, if she could get it, and it is 
thus seen how radically wrong it is to suppose that poor milk will by itself 
do for dogs—especially young, growing animals. Mr. Sewall’s suggestion 
