Kennel secrets - how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs (1904) (14750288186)

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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ers must be drying in front of the fire. This drying will occupy a full hour. When completed,take a little fine oil in the palm of the hand, rub the handstogether and then pass them over the coat. This done,tie up the bang with a piece of ribbon or tape to keepit from the eyes. Some dogs, in fact nearly all, will fiddle — scratch —themselves, especially the very heavy-coated ones, whichin hot weather may become heated and restless; and thesemust have stockings for the hind feet. The thumb ofan old glove will fill the bill. Put the foot into this andtie with a piece of narrow tape around the leg. Let the dog run about in the room, provided you canwatch him, for an hour or so. Then draw the brush overhim a few times and cage him. But do not oblige himto lie on plush or velvet cushions, for they are far fromsuitable. A linen cover is the proper thing for a cushion,for it cannot stain nor does the coat adhere to it. Andsuch a cover should be so made that it can be taken off andwashed.
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CHAPTER IV. TO AND FROM THE SHOW. Beginners, and in fact some old exhibitors, must be re-minded that when dogs are to make railroad journeysthey should be provided with comfortable crates or boxeslarge enough to permit them to stand and turn about withease; also, that the same should be so constructed that airwill be freely admitted on all sides and at the top, forotherwise they would be in danger of suffocation were thefreight packed very closely, as it almost always is in ex-press cars. But this accident is never likely to happenwhere the top of the crate is round or has a double incline,— like the roof of a house, — and if the latter, which isof the easiest construction, it should be made of slats ornarrow strips of board, and around the uppermost one, inthe middle of it, the tenants chain should be looped andfastened so that he will not likely become entangled;while the upper slats on the sides should project four orfive inches at the ends to serve as handles. All crates shoul