Kennel secrets - how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs (1904) (14750272766)

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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and leaves the solids, whichmust linger to undergo digestion. This mass aggravatesthe stomach irritation and therefore the thirst is moreintense than before the milk was taken. There is yet another fact that deserves emphasis, namely,that the digestive fluids of young puppies are often lessactive and potent than normal, and indigestion is the con-sequence. Pure, fresh water has a decided correctiveinfluence upon these fluids and fortifies them to no incon-siderable extent, hence it is entitled to be called a remedy. Summarizing briefly : puppies should be taught to drinkwater at the earliest age possible, and thereafter a con-stant supply that is pure, fresh and inviting should bekept before them. It will modify somewhat the appetite,allay irritation in the stomach, render the digestive fluidsmore active if they are weak, and mechanically act advan-tageously by washing food remnants down and out of thestomach. All of which must greatly favor health andlessen the liability to disease.
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CHAPTER IX. WASHING AND GROOMING, The skin is something more than a mere covering forthe body, and hterally an organ which to some extentshares the work of the lungs and gives off carbonic acidgas and other waste matters; moreover, it holds the sys-tem that modifies the bodily heat. Obviously, therefore,if in an unclean state and its so-called pores are chokedwith impurities it cannot perform its functions of elimi-nation, and these matters must make their way out bymeans of other avenues or be returned to the blood ; norwill it be easy to maintain the body at its proper temper-ature. The skin of a robust dog that has ample exercise isgenerally in a good, healthy condition and rarely requireswashing, for he often induces free and profuse perspira-tion during his runs and so flushes the pores, while by oc-casional swims and rolls in the grass he manages to keepthe surface and hair fairly clean. But with him that ischained most of the time or otherwise closely confinedfrequent washing i