The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-16
OWNING A DOG.
How to Raise strong, Healthy and
s.aa1 HnnnE PUPPY. "

How to Raise strong, Healthy and
Happy Puppy.
Hamertons says, Il thank divine pro-
violence for having invented dogs, and
! I regard that man with wondering PITY
who can lead a dogless life"
There are two sides to owning dog.
! The dogs duty to his mistress and.
the mistress duty to her dog. The
dogs part is. with a few exceptions
faithfully, generously. nobly done.
i But the other side is very different
ICarelessness and cruelty are common.
land even among people who reaily
love their dogs there is neglect Of many
Fittings, simple in themselves. that IS
1.-The cause of much needless sufIerlng,
land a great deal of cruel kindness.
| If you don't care enough about dog
to take a little trouble for him, don't
i keep one.
If you do, then get as good a one as
you can afford And get him young.
To be sure, it saves trouble to buy a
i full-grown dog, but he will not bi
tlillely, at least for some time, to care
for you as much as one you have train
ed yourself.
Get the kind of dog that suits your
condition in life.
Don't shut St Bernard, or a grey
hound. or wild Irish setter in little
city plot; don't take UP with a silly
pug if You can have a. clever terrier.
I say buy the best you can afford.
Do not believe people who talk of the
superior intelligence of mongrels. There
Eare good mongreis, sometimes, but in
choosing dog for better, for worse, II
is we'll to get one who is a pleasure and
a pride He may have the beautiful
| norIir1pcS of hrrII ar. ha al acsa nj
beauty of the setter: perhaps on the
whole there is no dog so beautiful as a
good setter, or the wiry grace of the
terrier. but he must be good of his kind
Suppose, then, that you get pup
about two months old. You will pro-
badly have to nurse him through dis
temper. but he will love you all the
better for that.
1. F'ood-About this opinions are as
various as the people who hold them.
One dog man gives his dogs milk and
another regards milk as rank poison.
One swears by dog biscuit and another
considers them trash but the fact re-
mains that many a delicate dog keeps
well on biscuit who cannot eat ordinary
food, and they are certainly very con-
venient.
1t you give your puppy milk always
add to it a. spoonful of lime water. and
put lime water into all the water that
he drinks. You will soon learn that
worms are the great curse of puppy ex-
istence. If you can keep your pup
clear of worms he will have good
chance for his life. but let them once
get hold of him, and hard and doubt
full will be the struggle. Lime water
in his food is a great preventive.
A pup must be fed often, certainly
three times a day; must not be allowed
to overeat himself, and should be
watched to see if his food suits him.
He must eat no candy another dog
curse, nor sweets of any kind. nor fats
He may have a big bone with next to
nothing on it, to amuse himself and
cut his teeth on, but no small bones
that he can chew up and swallow. He
may have a saucer of bread and milk
His bread should be soaked in water
and squeezed dry. This removes the
yeast which is injurious He should
have no meat at present, but he can
nave little soup or gravy on his bread,
and dog biscuit.
Food can be prepared in this way:
Get a sleeps liver and boil till tender;
take it out and add to the broth enough
Indian meal italian polenta is best
some use cat meal or graham), boil
until thoroughly DONE chop the liver
fine and stir in. When cold it should
be quite stiff. Vegetables, beets or
onions may be added
Avoid fat like the plague and veal
is very bad. Dogs. like people, have
peculiarities, and cannot all be treated
alike. A slice of meat that will make
no impression on one, will cause an
other to have fits. And then, again.
food depends very largely on the
amount of exercise taken.
We must always have fresh clean
water at hand.
2. A place to live This also is largely
an individual matter. The happiest
and healthfest pups are not reared in
SATIN lined baskets in hot rooms. Mel
Their are they subjected to cold and ex-
posture. One extreme is as bad as the
other. A little King Charles needs
more warmth than little setter. That's
true, but if the little setter STAYS out
in freezing cold kennel his growth
will be checked and he will not be the
dog he might have been
My dogs kennel was a wooden box
open at one side, but with a board
about six inches wide nailed across a t
the bottom, plenty of soft hay inside
and piece of carpet hanging from the
top like curtain. In that he was warm
and coy on the coolest night, in a
room without a fire.
If you keep your dog in a kennel out
OF doors you must see that in summer
it stands in the shade, and in cold and
damp weather there should always be
plenty of hay inside. A bed of Old
rags or carpet is no use, the poor dog
can only lie shivering on top of it. A
kennel should always be raised from
the ground by pieces of scantling
nailed to the bottom, otherwise IL will
be damp. 1t should have piece of
carpet nailed so as to hang over the
door in cold weather to keep out rain
and snow. Many a dog suffers tor
lures from rheumatism and kennel
lameness that these simple things. hay.
a bit of board, and a scrap of carpet
would nave kept in health and happi-
ness. 1t is hard to be so dependent
upon selfish people, sleeping comfort
ably in their warm beds while the poor
old dog shivers in his cold kennel. the
rain and snow beating in upon him.
ELLEN OAKFORD.