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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. ii, 1911. 
Training the Hunting Dog for the 
Field and Field Trials.* 
Kennel Management. 
The dog’s sleeping quarters should be dry, 
clean, well ventilated and comfortable. He 
should have ample room in which to exercise, 
in default of which he should be given a good 
run night and morning each day. Exercise is 
indispensable to his physical and mental well¬ 
being. Dogs should never be kept on chain. Old 
dogs in particular fret and worry, and in time 
become more or less soured in temper. 
Young dogs, from standing in a set, strained 
position at the length of the chain, frequently 
grow up out of shape; their elbows turn out, 
their faces are wrinkled and bear an anxious 
expression, and they become addicted to habitual 
worry and irritation. 
Cleanliness, good food, pure water, exercise 
and wholesome sleeping places are as necessary 
to the good health of the dog as they are to 
the good health of the master. Exercise, in 
fact, is more essential to the dog, for when he 
becomes fat, his powers quickly degenerate. He 
then becomes indolent, deficient in stamina and 
predisposed to disease. With some dogs it is 
a matter of great difficulty to work off the fat, 
as they either will not or cannot work enough 
to reduce it other than by very slow degrees. 
The food of the dog is worthy of much 
greater consideration than is commonly given 
to it. The table scraps of some families make 
quite good food, while those of other families 
cease to be food at all for any animal. There 
is quite a remove between scraps of good beef, 
bread, vegetables, etc., on the one hand, and 
potato skins on the other; that is to say, table 
scraps, to be of food value, must have food con¬ 
stituents. 
Sheep’s heads, tripe, mutton, beef, roasted rare 
or boiled with cabbage, turnips and onions, etc., 
make an excellent food. Corn-meal or any other 
purely vegetable food is unfit for the dog. He 
will live a shorter time, grow old young, and 
cease to be a working dog at an earlier age than 
he will on any other diet. The dog is carnivor¬ 
ous, and therefore he needs a meat diet. The 
ill effect of the latter, when such there is, is not 
from the meat diet of itself, but from over¬ 
feeding. In a state of nature the dog gets his 
meals at uncertain times, perhaps days apart. 
Once a day is quite often enough to feed him, 
yet the average dog owner is prone to judge of 
the dog’s needs by his own, and therefore he 
feeds the dog three times a day with a few 
morsels, perhaps, between times. 
The dog’s digestive organs are not adapted to 
the assimilation of a vegetable diet. On this 
point, the following, taken from a paper read 
before the New England Kennel Club, Boston, 
July, 1884, by Dr. Billings, will be read with in¬ 
terest: “No matter in what way we look at it, 
the dog’s ancestors were carnivorous, and the 
nature of their descendants has not changed in 
this regard, though, as in everything, else, man 
has succeeded in changing it to a degree. Still, 
a carnivorus he was, is and ever will be. He 
is not a masticator. He has not a grinding 
tooth in his head. He has nothing but biting 
and tearing teeth in the front, and crushers in 
the posterior part of the jaws. He takes no 
pleasure in eating as the chewers—i. e., the mas¬ 
ticating anima’s—do. His is a feeling of empti¬ 
ness, and when able he gulps his food, fills his 
stomach and, when he can do so, retires to a 
secluded spot to rest. Tt may be interpolated 
also that, in proportion to the size of the body, 
the canine family have the largest stomachs of 
any known species of animals. 
“Critical persons need not think we have any 
reference to the receptive stomach of the rumi¬ 
nants ; we mean the digestive stomach. 
“The dog’s natural food is meat, and to avoid 
giving them a strong odor, we should cook it. 
Meal and starchy food is an abomination, and 
-totally unfit for dogs, even the most delicate, 
though all the bigoted ignorance of all the dog 
men from time to eternity assert the contrary. 
*From “Training the Hunting Dog,” by B. Waters. 
Copyright by Forest and Stream Pub. Co. 
The dog can live on the stuff, I admit, but it 
finds no organs for its preparation or digestion 
until it has passed through the stomach into the 
intestines. He has no grinders to prepare it 
in the mouth, and if he had he gulps it without 
chewing; his salivary glands are rudimentary, 
hence he has no means whatever of turning 
starchy food into sugar and dextrine, which fit 
them for nourishment, as ruminants have. Starchy 
food is not acted upon by the gastric juices to 
any great degree, and so they pass unchanged 
through the stomach into the beginning of the 
intestines, where the pancreas or salivary glands 
of the abdomen have to do all the work. 
“Feeding on meat does not ruin the scent of 
sporting dogs as ignorance so frequently asserts. 
If it did, the whole wild canine race—wolves, 
jackals, etc.—wou d long ago have died of star¬ 
vation. Feeding meat does not make dogs ugly, 
but confinement and neglect do. Finally, com¬ 
mon sense and the study of the subject in all 
its details are better guides than the accumulated 
ignorance of the world on any subject.’’ 
The experience of all the eminent trainers and 
most advanced sportsmen fully bears out the 
foregoing. A dog will do more and better work 
on a meat diet than on any other, and he will 
also have better health and a longer life if so 
fed. 
Many owners are prejudiced in favor of vege¬ 
table food as a matter of economy. There is no 
doubt of its relative cheapness, but that is quite 
another matter from its fitness. 
Whether the dog is working or idling, one 
meal a day, at evening, is quite enough. The 
sympathy of the owner who judges his dog’s 
needs by his own is wasted when he imagines 
that the dog will suffer from hunger if he has 
not three meals a day. Actual knowledge in this 
matter is much better than unthinking sympathy. 
For the Sick Dog. 
There are hundreds of home remedies for 
dog treatment, most of which are more or less 
worthless. In some cases these treatments re¬ 
lieve the animal for a time, but do not effect a 
cure. The kennel department of Forest and 
Stream can tell you, in most cases, what ails 
your dog, provided you send description of the 
symptoms. In almost every case the remedies 
put up by Dr. H. Clay Glover, 113 W. 31st 
street. New York city, will be found efficacious. 
Dr. Glover is a veterinary surgeon who has 
spent years in the study of canine troubles and 
their solution, and has been more than ordi¬ 
narily successful in curing black tongue, worms, 
eczema, mange, distemper and such other ail¬ 
ments as are common in kennels and among 
pet dogs. 
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