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the training in their particular ease was mismanaged ; for if they 

 had been treated properly, they would not have been worked to the 

 extent which produced the change for the worse. Scarcely any 

 two dogs require the same treatment, and the chief art in training 

 is to. discover the exact amount which each will bear and require in 

 order to bring him out to the best advantage. It must therefore 

 be understood, xhat "by training is here meant the act of preparing 

 a dog for certain public performances in the way test fitted for 

 each individual; and that it does not by any means consist in 

 putting him through a specified course of physic, diet, and work, 

 which, in his ease, may be altogether unsuited to bim 



Btforz commencing to train a greyhound, it is necessarv to 

 consider what condition he is in at the time, and what amount 

 of work he is likely to bear, judging from his breed, and also 

 from his bodily formation. Ihe first thing to be done is to 

 see that his health is good, and that his liver and kidneys are 

 doing their work properly, without which it is useless to attempt 

 to train h™ If he is known to be descended from a stock which 

 has been accustomed to severe preparatory work, and if he also 

 has a stout frame and good net. it may reasonably be expected 

 that he will bear as much training as his progenitors, and he may 

 be treated accordingly. If, on the other hand, he conies of a soft 

 strain, that has never been used to road -work, and of which 

 the dogs composing it have always trained themselves in their 

 play to the highest pitch of which their frames are capable, 

 then it will be safer to follow suit, and to take the descendant 

 of these latter animal g out for two or three hours a day on the 

 greensward, simply keeping him moving, and encouraging him 

 to plav with his fellows till he is tired. Less than three hours' 

 exercise can never be sufficient, as lie dog is only compelled 

 to walk, and any fester pace is voluntary, and will not be 



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