Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-06-23
DOGGIE DOINGS
CARE OF THE NEWBORN
By M. D. DENLINGER
CONTINUED from last weekly

consequently Tor several days the
patient should have such foods as
boiled rice, broken dog biscuits or
well baked bread crusts, in limited
quantity, softened by a little milk or
broth, and be allowed water at inter-
walls of five or six hours, and then
just a little at time. If her breasts
are badly swollen and what is pop-
ularly termed "caked", the mother
should be quartered in the kitchen or
other convenient, well warmed place
until her discomfort has abated. Dur
ing the day hot, dry fiannels should
be applied to her breasts for fifteen
or twenty minutes at sitting, and
the application be repeated as often
as possible; while at night they
should be gently rubbed with cam
phorated oil, the same being used
generously.
In the case of large litters, there is
only two courses to follow, one being
to kill off the weaklings who even
tually would die, the other being to
Immediately secure the services of a
Foster Mother, and divide the litter,
giving all the weak pups to one bitch
and the strong to another. If the pups
have any value, it would certainly pay
Ia breeder to invest $500 in a Foster
Mother, whose milk has been tested
and guaranteed to accept strange
pups. - ~ ~
The Dog Hotel at Olney, telephone
Ashton rs, is the only establishment
in the United States making a bust
ness of supplying tested Foster
Mothers. The Dog Hotel keeps on
hand at all times a number of wet
bitches for emergency shipments, and
within an hour after having received
a telegraph money order for $500
will have suitable Foster Mother on
a fast express train speeding towards
her new charges.
The Dog Hotel does not make any
G. o. D. shipments, has an arrange
ment with the express company
whereby foster mothers may be
shipped on passenger trains not
carrying regular express. They ask
that their shipping crate be returned,
and after the breeder is through with
the foster mother who has success
fully reared the litter he will show
his appreciation by making every eff
fort to get her good home. They do
not want her returned.
Only rarely are mothers wholly
destitute of milk in the first days
after whelping, but not infrequently
it happens that the supply is far from
sufficient for all the puppies, and in
no small number of instances the flow
is abundant at first and then lost al
together in the course of a week or
two; in which cases it is either neces-
sary to provide foster mother or
rourish NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that
are extremely vexatious and general
ly difficult to meet.
Those who have large kennels and
breed extensively are to some extent
fortified against these accidents, for
very often they have two or more
bitches come in about the same time
and if the milk of one is insufficient
or lost she is assisted or her entire
duty assumed by the fortunate mother
or mothers. But, in the absence of such
happy conditions it is extremely diff
cult and more often than otherwise
impossible to obtain a suitable foster
mother locally.
AS Miss Grace Morrow, of Medford,
Mass. German Shepherd breeder)
once said, at is certainly comforting to
know that l can get Foster Mother
from the Dog Hotel, Olney, Nd, when
the occasion arises, tried every
where around Boston without success,
before telegraphing them. l had
tucked away the advertising in Popu-
lar Dogs, for just such an emergency,
and it was good that had done so.
If mother lost her last litter be-
cause of failure of her milk supply
it by no means follows that she will
be as unfortunate with her next, still
her owner should have a foster at
hand to prevent this accident if again
threatened. And he who has a bitch
of great value and has paid a large
price for Service" can wisely do
likewise, for the chances are many
that even were the assistant not an
imperative necessity she might yet be
used to very great advantage and
prove a profitable investment, results,
by the way, that may confdentally be
expected where this provision is made
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