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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 treatmentIdentifier: cu31924001170848 (find matches)Year: 1907 (1900s)Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-Subjects: DogsPublisher: London, Paris, New York, Toronto & Melbourne, Cassell and Company, LimitedContributing Library: Cornell University LibraryDigitizing Sponsor: MSNView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image: 584 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. the greatest amo unt of brain and intelli- and her own family ought to be of the same gence are generally the most prolific as to age as the one of which she is to take addi- the number of puppies they produce. St. Bernards, Pointers, Setters are notable for the usual strength of their families. St. Bernards have been known to produce as many as eighteen whelps at a birth, and it is no uncommon thing for them to produce from nine to twelve. A Pointer of Mr. Barclav Field's produced fifteen, and it is well known that Mr. Statter's Setter Phoebe produced twenty-one at a birth. Phcsbe reared ten of these herself, and almost every one of the family became celebrated. It would be straining the natural possibilities of any bitch to expect her to bring up eighteen puppies healthily. Half that number would tax her natural resources to the extreme. But Nature is extra- ordinarily adaptive in tempering the wind to the shorn lamb, and a dam who gives birth to a numerous litter ought not to have her family unduly reduced. It was good policy to allow Phoebe to have the rearing of as many as ten out of her twenty-one. A bitch having twelve will bring up nine very well, one having nine will rear seven without help, and a bitch having seven will bring up five better than four. Breeders of Toy dogs often rear the over- plus offspring by hand, with the help of a Maw and Thompson feeding bottle, pep- tonised milk, and one or more of the various advertised infants' foods or orphan pupp\' foods. Others prefer to engage or prepare in advance a foster mother. The foster mother need not be of the same breed, but she should be approximately of similar size. tional charge. One can usually be secured through advertisement in the canine press. Some owners do not object to taking one from a dogs' home, which is an easy method, in consideration of the circum- stance that by far the larger number of "lost " dogs are bitches sent adrift because thev are in whelp. The chief risk in this course is that the unknown foster mother may be diseased or verminous or have con- tracted the seeds of distemper, or her milk may be populated with embryo worms. These are dangers to guard against. A cat makes an excellent foster mother for toy dog puppies. Worms ought not to be a necessary accompaniment of puppvhood, and if the sire and dam are properly attended to in advance thev need not be. The writer has attended at the birth of puppies, not one of whom has shown the remotest sign of having a wcjrm, and the puppies have almost galloped into healthy, happy maturity, protected from all the usual canine ailments by constitutions impervious to disease. He has seen others almost eaten away by worms. Great writhing knots of them have been ejected; they have been vomited; they have wriggled out of the nostrils; they have perforated the stomach and wrought such damage that most of the puppies succumbed, and those that survived were permanently deficient in stamina and liable to go wrong on the least provocation. The puppy that is free from worms starts life with a great advantage.Text Appearing After Image: (l')iolagraph by T. Rcvclsy, Wantage.)Note About Images
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