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KENNELS AND KENNEL MANAGEMENT. 



encourage the puppies to fence, by the necessity for jumping over 

 them in pursuing one another. The floors should be of glazed 

 tiles, adamantine clinkers, Dutch clinkers, Broseley bricks, or 

 cement, the last being the most clean and free from absorption, 

 which ought always to be entirely prevented. Each sleeping-place 

 and yard should have a trapped drain, so as to carry off any wet 

 directly it falls, and the former should be built exteriorly of brick 

 cemented at least a foot from the ground, with board partitions 



Elevation of Greyhound Kennel. 



between them. A window should be in each, which is capable of 

 being opened, and the ventilation should be secured by the plan 

 introduced by Mr. Muir, whose address is 1 1 Ducie Street, 

 Exchange, Manchester. This always secures a down-current as 

 well as an up- current, so that there is little or no necessity for 

 having the door open except for cleanliness, but in very windy 

 weather the ventilation on the side of the wind shoidd be closed, 

 or the down-draught will be enough to chill the greyhounds. As 

 these kennels are to be paved with a non-porous material, the soil 



