Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ir owndam or a foster-mother, or if the weather becold. Directly the puppies are weaned acertain proportion of lean, raw, scraped meatshould be given, as well as Bengers Foodmade with milk, Plasmon wholemeal bis-cuits soaked in milk. Force and milk, andbread and milk. Feed every two or threehours at first, keeping the puppies warmand dry. At four months old three mealsa day should suffice, then give Sprattspuppy biscuits dry and broken up, good gravy or soup poured over stale breadcrumbs, and one meal of lean raw meat. Watch for worms ; keep a look-out whenteething, and allow a large bone for thepuppies tc gnaw, but not eat. The pups which one does not wish to keepshould be sold at the age of six weeks. Although to my knowledge many FrenchBulldogs are good ratters, and some few canaccount for a rabbit, they are by no meansa sporting breed ; they are essentially dogsto be used as companions and householdpets, being very quaint, jolly, engaginglittle personages, who are full of life and
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MRS CHARLES WATERLOW S CH. STANMORE ARGUS BY BILL FOLLETTE. Photograph by T. Fall. vivacity. Their size and temperament renderthem particularly suitable for living in ahouse or flat ; they are quiet and yetbright, full of life yet not too boisterous. 63 CHAPTER V. THE ST. BERNARD. BY FREDK. GRESHAM. Behold this creatures form and state,Which Nature therefore did create.That to the world might be expressedWhat mien there can be in a beast ;And that we in this shape may findA lion of another kind.For this heroic beast does seemIn majesty to rival him,

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