Kennel secrets - how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs (1904) (14586651418)

Identifier: kennelsecretshow00perr (find matches)
Title: Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Perry, Joseph Franklin, 1846-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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n generally be taken for months withoutdisordering digestion. And animals to which it is givennot only increase in weight but become much richer inblood. Moreover, a nice adjustment of doses is rarelynecessary, and if too much happens to be given it hasmerely a laxative effect. Commencing with a dose of two teaspoonfuls for mem-bers of the largest varieties, one teaspoonful for dogsof about the size of English setters, or one-half thatquantity for smaller breeds, the droppings should bewatched and an increase made each day until the doseis five or six times greater than at first, provided no effectupon the bowels is noted. And at least two doses can begiven daily with the food. This oil, by the way, should be invariably purchased ofdruggists of good repute, for from them only is one likelyto obtain a pure, refined quality; and as it becomes rancidin time purchasers will do well to buy a quantity sufficientto last for but two or three weeks, and keep it in a coolplace while being used.
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CHAPTER III. CONDITIONING THE COAT. When the general health of a dog is impaired the factis registered in his skin and hair, they losing in corre-sponding degree their natural softness and elasticity andsmoothness and lustre. And as the complexion is clearedand brightened by exercise, so are the dogs skin and jacketimproved by the same means. But while hygienic anddietetic influences act upon both man and the dog in pre-cisely the same way, outwardly the salutary effect is muchless quickly apparent in the latter, and he may have been illand long since recovered and yet his coat be still quite dryand staring. And it may be all this even in the presenceof continuous good health if cleanliness has not beenmaintained by grooming. But even if a dog is well and has been faithfully caredfor in this direction there is always work to be done onhis coat before he can be shown at his best; and as the de-tails of this are not generally well understood, a discussionof them can scarcely be without