THE DALMATIAN DOG. 



two. The Dog, when flrft whelped, is not completely formed ; his eyes are 

 not opened till he is ten or twelve days old, during which period the bones 

 of the fkull are incomplete, the body is puffed up, the nofe is lhort, and 

 the whole body but indifferently iketched out. In lefs than a month, the 

 puppy begins to exercife all his fenfes, and, from that period, makes rapid 

 advances to its perfection, which it attains at the age of twelve months : it 

 goes with young nine weeks, and lives about twelve or thirteen years. 



Water appears to be more neceffary to the Dog than food ; he drinks 

 frequently, though not abundantly ; and, it is imagined, he runs mad when 

 abridged of water. This dreadful malady is the greater!: inconvenience that 

 refults from the keeping this faithful domeftic : this diforder, however, is 

 not fo frequent as the terrors of the timorous lead them to fuppofe ; and the 

 Dog has been often accufed of madnefs without a fair trial. Happy would 

 it be, if a certain and infallible remedy were known for this molt horrid 

 difeafe; but, it is feared, none yet difcovered can be abfolutely depended 

 on. Perhaps the moff probable preventative is, inftantly to warn the 

 wound with water as hot as it can be borne, and to repeat the warnings 

 inceffantly for three hours. 



