
Conditioning the Dog 
' Few of us realize the great endurance of the 
dog. We take him out for a day’s rough shoot- 
ing and return comfortably tired after a ten or 
fifteen miles’ tramp. Yet how far has our dog 
traveled? He must at the very least have run 
four times as far as we ourselves walked and 
often we must acknowledge, after a little reflec- 

all day. Perhaps he may pull through on pluck 
alone, but he will feel the effects next day and 
possibly go all to pieces. 
There is a professional freighter in the Yukon 
who understands dogs and their management, 
and last winter he made, perhaps, the most 
remarkable journey on record. He left Dawson 
on January 26 with two dog teams, the one of 
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A WELL-KEPT ENGLISH SETTER 
Owned by A. D. Burhans, Lincoln, Neb. 
tion, that he went ten yards to our one, and that 
at a pace we could not have kept up for five 
minutes had our lives depended upon the 
result. . 
Hence, we should be careful not to ask our 
dogs to take the field without due preparation. 
It is simply cruelty to take a young or soft dog 
out early in the season and expect him to hunt 
four and the other of three dogs, with a passen- 
ger and supplies for the trip. This man, whose 
name is E. Higgins, has been handling dog 
teams for some years and is a highly experi- 
enced man, otherwise he would not have been 
able to accomplish the wonderful feat he did; 
for even the best dogs will play out unless 
properly handled. From Dawson he went to 
