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feet quite hard enough to cause a yell and retreat. 
If this will be repeated only a few times the dog 
will fairly snarl and show fight to anyone who may 
endeavor to coax him along. The dog is quite in¬ 
telligent and possessed of good reasoning powers, 
and will at once perceive the danger to himself in 
being petted by anyone but his master. 
PROPER FEEDING. 
From the time on when the puppy becomes 
chained to its kennel and training will be begun, 
care must be taken not to either over or to under 
feed. If fed too highly, especially with fatty sub¬ 
stances, then, owing to insufficient exercise, the 
puppy will become lazy, inattentive and, the worst 
of all, mangy. If underfed, he becomes restless, 
will fall to continuous barking and howling, scratch 
and paw up the dirt around his kennel, get thin, 
weakly and unfit to endure the hardships during 
the course of training. Not a more pitiful or dis¬ 
gusting sight can be imagined than a mere skeleton 
of a dog being dragged around helplessly on a spike 
collar, expected to obey orders, and in default is sub¬ 
jected to such cruel punishment that he yells aloud 
and crawls to the tormentor’s feet, begging for 
sympathy. If but one dog is to be cared for, the 
table usually affords ample offall but if a number 
are kept then it will become necessary to provide 
specially cooked food for them, which may best be 
done by baking a sufficiently large loaf of corn 
