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FOREST AND STREAM 
January, 1921 
A FAITHFUL CHESAPEAKE 
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THE AIREDALE. By W. A. Bruette. This in- 
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breeding, kennel management, preparation for 
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POCKET KENNEL RECORD. A handy book 
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AMATEUR’S DOG BOOK. By William A. 
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THE BULL TERRIER. By William Haynes. 
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DOG TRAINING VS. BREAKING. By S. T. 
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POX HOUND, THE. By Roger D. Williams. 
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To the Editor of Forest and Stream: 
1 HAVE read with interest the items 
in the last two issues of your maga- 
zine dealing with the Chesapeake dog. 
As I am the proud possessor of one of 
these fine animals I guess that is why 
the articles interested me so much. 
When it comes to endurance I be- 
lieve the Chesapeake has no equal. I 
have hunted under conditions where it 
was impossible to find a dry spot for my 
dog to stand on. She has stood in the 
water almost shoulder deep for several 
hours at a time, waiting and watching 
for me to shoot a duck. I have never 
heard her whimper once from the cold 
or show any signs of distress. 
She is always on the alert in the 
marshes. Her head is never still; she 
is forever glancing first in one direction, 
then in another. The instant she sees a 
duck coming she sticks her ears up, then 
turns eagerly to me and watches me 
prepare to shoot. 
When it comes to retrieving she is a 
whirlwind. She will bring in two mal- 
lards at a time. If there are two or 
three ducks knocked from a flock, she 
never fails to go after the cripples first. 
She does not know the meaning of the 
word quit and will keep after a duck 
until she gets it. 
One day last winter I knocked three 
mallards out of one flock. They were 
all cripples. She caught one and hold- 
ing it in her mouth, after a hard hunt 
and a good deal of difficulty, succeeded 
in getting number two crammed into 
her big mouth also. I called to her to 
“fetch,” but she either did not hear me 
or pretended she did not. She kept up 
her hunt for number three. I knew 
that she would find it and I was very 
much interested in what she was going 
to do when she did find it, for she had 
a whole mouthful of flopping ducks. 
Finally she located number three 
under the edge of a bunch of swamp 
grass and placed her two big front feet 
on top of him and there she remained 
until I came to her rescue. 
This bitch shows almost human in- 
telligence at times. She is of the otter 
type of Chesapeake. Her weight is 
about ninety pounds and she has a very 
broad deep chest. I have had many 
good offers for her, but I have yet to see 
the sum of money that would even tempt 
me to part with her. Her mother with 
six puppies died when she was three 
days old, so she is the last of her family 
left. She was raised on milk from a 
bottle with a nipple until she was large 
enough to lap it. You can’t drive her 
from my side and I cannot persuade her 
to hunt with any one else. She is 
faithful and nothing suits her better 
than to be able to slip her big cold nose 
up under my arm and lick my hand 
and caress me in her doggish way. 
There is a large pear tree near her 
kennel. When the pears ripen they fall 
from the tree and every time one falls 
she rushes out and picks it up and, car- 
rying it to a corner of the fence, lays it 
carefully on the ground. Every evening 
she has a nice little pile of ripe pears 
stacked in the fence corner all ready 
to pick up. 
She has brought in hundreds of ducks 
for me and has never so much as 
bruised the skin of one. She has caught 
several very young ducks, but never 
harmed them in the least and they are 
very tender. 
I have a flock of nine wild mallards 
in the yard. She never molests any of 
them. In fact, she does not pay the 
least attention to them. 
Any reader who is figuring on pur- 
chasing a duck dog will not go wrong 
if he chooses a Chesapeake. They are 
natural retrievers and you will find 
them easy to train. Treat them right 
and always remember that your dog is 
endowed with a certain amount of sense. 
Treat him as you would your friend and 
you will soon find out that he is the best 
friend you have in the world, the closest 
pal and one who will be willing to do 
your bidding, even at the sacrifice of his 
own life. 
Peggy, my dog, is here to stay, and 
when the day comes for parting it will 
not be for money, wherein the dog will 
go into some stranger’s hands, but it 
will be when one of us goes in search of 
another “huntin’ ground.” 
Lans Leneve, Oregon. 
CARE OF PUPPIES 
G IVE the mother plenty of healthful 
food and exercise, and as soon as 
the puppies are a few days old remove 
them from their stall and make their 
bed upon the bare ground until they 
are weaned. Never wash a puppy. It 
is of no benefit to them, except in looks, 
and it is often a source of trouble in 
that it induces a cold which may bring 
disease and death. Keep them shelt- 
ered from cold and inclement weather, 
but at all times give them plenty of 
room on the ground, where they can dig 
in the dirt and get fresh earth to eat 
when they wish it. After weaning, 
accustom them to a diet of Indian or 
oatmeal, well cooked and mixed with 
plenty of thick sour milk. This is the 
best possible thing to expel the worms 
that many times infest them. It is also 
the best regulator of the bowels, as by 
a little care in increasing or diminish- 
ing the quantity it will always keep 
them just right. Frequently boil meat 
and use the broth for making their 
mush, and if their condition is not just 
to suit, give them an occasional meal 
of well-cooked meat, and when their 
teeth begin to trouble them give them 
plenty of large bones, with a little meat 
cn them, and never, under any circum- 
stances — for their ordinary ailments — 
give them a single dose of medicine, 
and above all else, never worry with 
thoughts or fears that they will not 
live. 
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