Kennel secrets - how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs (1904) (14770986264)

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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orms every two or three days. But when she nolonger cleans up after her little ones it will be necessaryto look to the floors every day. He who has two rooms or pens, to be occupied by themother and puppies on alternate days after the first week,is especially fortunate, for one can be used while the floorof the other is being disinfected and well dried. In theabsence of such favorable conditions all filth should beremoved daily and the floor beneath mopped with a clothwet with the permanganate of potassium solution, the for-mula of which is given in chapter on Kennelling.Disinfectants in powdered form would greatly favor con-venience, but obviously it would be inexpedient to usethem where the puppies were very young; nor is itexpedient to use sawdust, dry sand or the like on thefloors before the fifth or sixth week, for the reason thatmany of the particles would get into the little onesmouths, and, swallowed, cause indigestion. While on the subject of cleanliness it will be as well to
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