. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE DOG 49 dangerous to man. They must absolutely be cleaned at once, and preferably with a dism- prevented from licking plates and dishes used fectant. Besides dust and dirt the hair of in the kitchen, or any utensil used for waslniig a dog frequently hides vernnn, but if he is the facc\ especially that of a ehilel. After each cleaned daily he will have few or none, vermifuge a dose of castor c be given, in a quantity propi tioned to the size o


. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE DOG 49 dangerous to man. They must absolutely be cleaned at once, and preferably with a dism- prevented from licking plates and dishes used fectant. Besides dust and dirt the hair of in the kitchen, or any utensil used for waslniig a dog frequently hides vernnn, but if he is the facc\ especially that of a ehilel. After each cleaned daily he will have few or none, vermifuge a dose of castor c be given, in a quantity propi tioned to the size o animal, beginning wi a teaspoonful and in- creasing until the maximum of a table- ; I. spoonful is reached, j Here is another piece of s e r i o ti s advice to those who have young dogs never fatten them. The Chinese and some tribes negroes in Guinea consider dog flesh a delicacy, but as long as it. HlC OUGHT XE\'HR TO bad to wash and bathe dogs, louglT this is often done to :ss. They may be owed to swim from ;ime tf) lime, but there is a great dif- ference between swimming and a bath for cleanli- ness. A dog should have a bath once a Kjnth, and should y then be ivet to the skin. After rubbing him well with soap and warm water, every particle of soap must be rinsed off and the does not appear on the dinner lists piave too much t(.) i;.\t dog allowed to shake himself vigor- of America there is no c)biect in .)usly. He should then be dried with giving dogs excessive nourishment, which towels and taken on the chain for a short walk ; undoubtedly shortens their lives. if this is not done he almost always takes cold. The care given to dogs for bench shows or else he goes and dries himself against a dirty differs considerably, as we shall see later, from that which they receive in pri\-ate families. Among the latter external care is, unhappily, so neglected that the animals finally acquire skin diseases, which make them objects of dis- gust to every one, and they exhale an odor which


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