Kennel Secrets: How To Breed, Exhibit And Manage Dogs | by Ashmont

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The design of this work and the results attained are so evident a formal introduction is unnecessary. Possibly the elementary character of many of the precepts given will occasion surprise, yet all m...

Setters

THET IRISH SETTER, NORNA. THE IRISH SETTER, KILDARE. THE ENGLISH SETTER, MONK OF FURNESS. ...

St. Bernards

THE SMOOTH-COATED ST. BERNARD, KEEPER. THE ST. BERNARDS, EMPRESS OF CONTOOCOOK AND LADY GLADWYN. THE ST. BERNARD, SIR BEDIVERE. Sir Bedivere. ...

Great Danes

EARL OF WARWICK. Sol. THE NEWFOUNDLAND, PIRATE KING. THE GREAT DANE, HANNIBAL THE GREAT. THE GREAT DANE, IVANHOE. THE GREAT DANE, ULRIC. THE GREAT DANES, IVANHOE...

Bloodhounds

BURGUNDY. JUDITH. THE DEERHOUNT, OLGA. THE RUSSIAN WOLFHOUND, GROUBIAN. ...

Retrievers

Smooth-Coated Retrievers MOONSTONE. DARENTH. Curly-Coated Retrievers TIVERTON VICTOR. BLACK GIPSY. THE POINTER, BEAUFORT. ...

Pointers

PRINCE S BOY. ILMA. ...

Irish Water Spaniels

THE SHAUGRAUN. SHAUN. THE FIELD SPANIEL, BRIDFORD PERFECTION. THE SUSSEX SPANIEL, BRIDFORD GIDDIE. ...

Old English Sheep Dogs

SIR CAVENDISH. LADY GRIZZLE. LADY CAVENDISH. SIR CAVENDISH. ...

Beagles

ROYAT, KRUEGER. FRANK FOREST. Sir Everett Millais' Basset Puppy Syringa. A Product of Artificial Fecundation. ...

Bull Dogs

HARPER. GRAVEN IMAGE. IVEL DOCTOR. KING LUD. HOLY TERROR. BRITOMARTIX. FRENCH BULL DOG, RICO. THE BULL DOG, SANCHO PANZA. ...

Boston Terriers

CHAMPION, LORD DERBY. CHAMPION, REMLIK BONNIE. BOSTON TERRIER, SPORTSMAN.' BOSTON TERRIER, LADY DAINTY. THE BOSTON TERRIER, ROSSIE RICHARDS. Boston Terrier, Monte. ...

Bull Terriers

NELSON. EDGEWOOD WONDER, TARQUIN. BULL TERRIER, STREATHM MONARCH. ...

Airedale Terriers

CHOLMONDELEY BRIAR. COLNE CRACK. AIREDALE TERRIER., THE NEW KING. ...

Fox Terriers

WIRE-HAIRED FOX TERRIER, CHAMPION MEERSBROOK BRISTLES. FOX TERRIER, NORFOLK HANDICRAFT. FOX TERRIER, NORFOLK VERACITY. WIRE-HAIRED, VALUER. VENIO. RABY MIXER. GROUSE...

Scotch Terriers

TEAZER. TIREE. KILROY KILCREE. BRADESTOM DUNDEE. KILDEE. THE LAIRD. ...

Irish Terriers

DUNMURRY. STERNFIELD VI BRICKBAT. STERNFIELD VI THE WELSH TERRIER, DIM SAESONAEG. THE WELSH TERRIER, BON GOUT. THE DANDIE DINMONT TERRIER, AMPHION, The Be...

Skye Terriers

SILVER QUEEN. CARLO III. OLD BURGUNDY. ...

Pugs

KING OF DIAMOADS. MAYOK OF LEEDS. LORD CLOVER. BOASOR. Black Pugs LITTLE SAP DOATIE DARLING. THE BLACK CORDED POODLE, JOE II. ...

Toy Spaniels

The Blenheim, Dandy. The Ruby. Ruby Princess. The Prince Charles, King of the Fancy. Japanese, Senn-Sation. King Charles, Perseverance. ...

Blenheim Spaniels

BOWSIE AND BEACONSFIELD. ...

King Charles Spaniels

DUCHESS. JUMBO II. ...

Italian Greyhounds

THE GREYHOUND, FULLERTON. THE GREYHOUND, GEM OF THE SEASON.. SAPPHO. JUNO. BLACK-AND-TAN TERRIERS. BKOOMFIELD SULTAN. BUFFALO LASS. THE GREYHOUND. BALKIS. ...

Toys

The Maltese Terrier Hugh. The Yorkshire Terrier, Ted. The Japanese Spaniel, Nank-i-Poo. ...

Pomeranians

Blaek Boy. Rob of Rozelle. ...

Collies

THE COLLIE, WELLESBOURNE CHARLIE. THE COLLIE, METCHLEY WONDER. THE SMOOTH-COATED COLLIE, PICKMERE. THE COLLIE, CHRYSOLITE. ...

Dogs

The Chow-Chow, Mandarin's Gift. The Sehipperke, Cople Sophia. ORLANDO. MASTIFFS. BEAUFORT. THE WHIPPET, ZUBER. THE DALMATIAN, WATER LILY. THE BASSET, BET....

Part I. Management. Chapter I. The Natural Diet

Men differ as to the origin of the dog, but all agree that he is of the family of carnivora and that he was a flesh-eating beast in his wild state. Admitting this eminently plausible theory the que...

The Natural Diet. Part 2

Finally, with no small proportion of them combinations of the different foods are mere questions of convenience, they holding to the notion that the all-important essential is quantity, and, food bein...

The Natural Diet. Part 3

In other words the dog is so constituted physically that he can digest both animal and vegetable foods, and from them when in correct proportions he will obtain all the nutritive principles required f...

The Natural Diet. Part 4

Equally as correct conclusions regarding the potency of these influences can be drawn from the experiences of men, for they act upon them as on dogs. Sailors, for instance, on fairly long voyages are ...

Chapter II. Varieties Of Animal Foods

As stated in the foregoing, puppies while young and growing require in proportion a more generous quantity of animal food for muscle and bone building than they will after they are mature and their st...

Varieties Of Animal Foods. Part 2

Notwithstanding this lessened digestibility of the meat, dogs are capable of disposing of these soups to good advantage if the quantity is properly restricted, but if in excess much of them is unaffec...

Varieties Of Animal Foods. Part 3

As for what are known as lights, some writers recommend them, yet a person would not be likely to feed them to a house pet more than once, for they give the breath an intolerable stench, which can b...

Varieties Of Animal Foods. Part 4

Reverting to the culinary preparation of animal food, it is again urged that when the popular method, boiling, is applied, in every instance the water or broth be fed out with the meat because this co...

Chapter III. Vegetable Foods

Many who have publicly discussed the subject of feeding have stoutly asserted that vegetable substances are absolutely unfit for dogs; and the reason which the most scientific of them have advanced is...

Vegetable Foods. Part 2

From this brief consideration of garden produce the conclusion is justified that vegetables can be advantageously employed in feeding dogs, to vary the diet, render certain foods more nutritious and w...

Vegetable Foods. Part 3

Bread trimmings are quite extensively used in kennels, they being obtainable in cities of dealers who contract for them with keepers of hotels, restaurants, etc., and sell them for much less than the ...

Vegetable Foods. Part 4

Consequently it can rightly be said to constitute a food of exceeding value, especially for toys that are peculiarly liable to be heated up and as a result have breakings out of the skin, also for...

Chapter IV. Dietary For Puppies

Having taken a general survey of the range of materials at the command of man for the purpose of feeding his dogs, it is well to return and, starting as it were with a litter of puppies about leaving ...

Dietary For Puppies. Part 2

Scalded milk will do for the first feeding. The next, to be given about eight a.m., should be prepared as follows : Soak in water a few pieces of stale bread that have been well baked the second time...

Dietary For Puppies. Part 3

This puppy will grow straight and strong on his legs and upright in his pasterns; moreover, from his food he will extract its greatest good; and, in a word, he will in a short time be far ahead of the...

Dietary For Puppies. Part 4

Up to this time the puppies have been given shin bones from which the meat has been scraped. Now all the large ones - also nearly cleaned - that are taken from the soup should be thrown into their yar...

Chapter V. General Dietary

The reader ought now have a near idea of the dietetic treatment required by the average puppy, which is to be found among all varieties excepting toys and others that must be kept down to certain weig...

General Dietary. Part 2

Bread cut thin and buttered is suitable for a change and may be given occasionally to all that like it, the slices being broken into small pieces and fed from the hand. For the heartiest meal of the ...

General Dietary. Part 3

The scraps and dog cakes insufficient, and it being necessary to prepare food specially for several large dogs, some such custom as the following may wisely be instituted during cold weather: Put on...

General Dietary. Part 4

In a word, whether there should be one feeding daily or two or more feedings depends largely upon existing circumstances, and these considered intelligently a mistake would scarcely be possible. But t...

Chapter VI. Kennelling

Health is the dog's natural condition and he would rarely know any other were he given freedom and left to himself. But he is put under restraint, his supply of sunshine and pure air narrowed, and he ...

Kennelling. Part 2

If the ground is sloping the floor timbers can be set on cedar posts projecting about two feet, but if level a foundation will be required. Merely a stone wall two feet in height will do for this if t...

Kennelling. Part 3

A sleeping-bench constructed in this way will greatly favor convenience, and the occupants can be easily prevented from carrying bones to their beds - a habit which is not only unpleasant but dangerou...

Chapter VII. Exercise

Man possesses many great truths that he is slow to reduce to practice, and very strangely no small proportion of them bear on his physical welfare. He wishes to be well and dreads to be sick, yet for ...

Exercise. Part 2

Evidences of too close confinement are plainly manifested in dogs, but unfortunately they are seldom rightly interpreted, and oftentimes other influences, which if related are only distantly so, are h...

Exercise. Part 3

When it is impossible to provide a yard with a hard surface and the other conditions - ample sunlight, etc. advised, instead of using indifferent quarters the owner should give the puppies the run of ...

Exercise. Part 4

Where the door-yards of houses are very small the following is often resorted to with merciful effect: A post long enough to extend at least six feet above ground is set up ten, twenty or thirty feet ...

Chapter VIII. The Drinking Water

Many have reached the conclusion that because dogs will drink from stagnant pools it is a matter of indifference to them whether or not their water is clean and fresh. Man will also drink from such po...

Chapter IX. Washing And Grooming

The skin is something more than a mere covering for the body, and literally an organ which to some extent shares the work of the lungs and gives off carbonic acid gas and other waste matters; moreover...

Washing And Grooming. Part 2

The general rules are as follows : Never wash a dog within two or three hours after eating heartily. The best time is about an hour before a feeding, for then if he is depressed by the bath his food ...

Washing And Grooming. Part 3

But let no one try to dry a Yorkshire by rubbing with towels or like means, for the harm would be well-nigh irreparable. And in this instance the drying must all be done with brushes; each one in turn...

Chapter X. Troublesome Insects

Although the skin and jacket of the dog would seem to afford conditions highly favorable for various kinds of free animal parasites there is really only one which has a very decided preference for him...

Troublesome Insects. Part 2

It has been found that these powders owe their insect-destroying virtue to an acrid resin, deprived of which they are practically worthless. This resin can be extracted by alcohol, and the method to b...

Troublesome Insects. Part 3

What is generally accepted as the pure carbolic acid is sometimes used in a stronger preparation composed as follows: Carbolic acid, one-half an ounce; glycerine, one-half an ounce; laudanum, one oun...

Part II. Exhibiting. Chapter I. Preparatory Work

The truth of the familiar and crude apothegm It costs no more to keep a good dog than a poor one has evidently found wide acceptance, for mongrels are rapidly disappearing and their places are being...

Preparatory Work. Part 2

As for sarcoptic mange, the other disease which dogs are liable to contract at shows, the clanger from it is now very slight since every dog must be carefully examined on entrance; and what remains ca...

Preparatory Work. Part 3

Dogs when kept in training for a great time if given excessive work, and especially fast work, are liable to become stale and lack fire at the critical time; yet without hard work the fire is mere...

Chapter II. The Feeding

Under properly regulated exercise a dog fairly healthy in the beginning will have gained at every point before the fourth week, his muscles having noticeably filled and hardened, his step become more ...

The Feeding. Part 2

On this diet they will become hard and firm without the desposition of fat; or if too fat they will grow thinner under it. Before going further the fact deserves emphasis that there should be a fixed...

The Feeding. Part 3

In a case like this it would seem that animal foods could be largely relied upon as the least likely to fatten, but Yorkshires ought not be given much meat, for it is stimulating and quite sure to hea...

Chapter III. Conditioning The Coat

When the general health of a dog is impaired the fact is registered in his skin and hair, they losing in corresponding degree their natural softness and elasticity and smoothness and lustre. And as th...

Conditioning The Coat. Part 2

The brush - of bristles from an inch and one-quarter to an inch and one-half in length for long-coated dogs, or a dandy brush for the smooth-coated - should be used for at least half an hour every mor...

Conditioning The Coat. Part 3

Notwithstanding the injunction to use only the best soaps on dogs, and the natural desire of all to comply with it, many are likely to stumble at this point since so large a proportion of the brands r...

Chapter IV. To And From The Show

Beginners, and in fact some old exhibitors, must be reminded that when dogs are to make railroad journeys they should be provided with comfortable crates or boxes large enough to permit them to stand ...

To And From The Show. Continued

In such condition rest, not food, is what they need; moreover, they could not digest much, if any, food were they to take it, for their digestive organs are no less weakened by the hardships that they...

Chapter V. On The Bench

Once dogs are on the bench they should be fed sparingly until they are back to their kennels, one meal every twenty-four hours being the rule with all excepting toys; and this should be made up of the...

On The Bench. Continued

It is well to advert here to the idea so prevalent among the inexperienced - and not without believers among exhibitors - that judges are often swayed by the owners of dogs; or, in other words, that t...

Part III. Breeding. Chapter I. Selection Of Sire

It would seem from the practice of the infinite majority of breeders that they, in the beginning, accepted as a fixed fact that like produces like with positive certainty, and satisfied that in this...

Selection Of Sire. Part 2

Assuming another case, and this time of a bitch with yellow eyes. Now the average breeder would select a dog that had eyes of good color, without considering for a moment that that dog may be an acci...

Selection Of Sire. Part 3

Therefore, he is wise who depends largely upon others for his sires. He will naturally have a leaning towards the most successful prize-winners, and rightly so, for in them he will generally find the ...

Selection Of Sire. Part 4

This theory, therefore, is vague, unsatisfactory and opposed to reason, and one might as well say that a husband can influence the length of his wife's nose, the color of her eyes, or in any lesser wa...

Selection Of Sire. Part 5

He who breeds extensively and especially the large and heavy dogs, and duly appreciates the importance of keeping to type always when possible, often finds himself in a dilemma. Again using as an ill...

Chapter II. In Season

The first occurrence of that peculiar state of the system known as the rutting season or oestruation, during which only will the bitch allow the approaches of the dog and impregnation is possible,...

In Season. Part 2

Fortunately this method of shaping is rarely ever applied excepting to a few small breeds in which the injuries of too early maternity are only comparatively slight, and it is easier to condone it s...

In Season. Part 3

The practical conclusions to be drawn from this are, that the several stages of season vary not only in the different breeds but in members of the same breed, and while some bitches will not permit th...

In Season. Part 4

Not unnaturally, the offspring of show winners are in the greatest demand, and these are notoriously the most unsound constitutionally, because of the treatment that is often inflicted to bring them i...

Chapter III. Before Whelping

If a bitch has not been accustomed to free exercise, for at least two months before she is due in season she should be given a goodly amount of slow work every day; and this treatment should be persis...

Before Whelping. Part 2

In order to make the most of this sign the examiner should kneel behind the standing bitch and pass his hand between her legs to the abdomen. If she is of very large breed and at the beginning of the ...

Before Whelping. Part 3

The results of this experiment are highly interesting and instructive, showing clearly as they do that the nursing mother sends out to her young, in her milk, a part of her store of lime, which is abs...

Before Whelping. Part 4

When the conditions are normal whelping very generally occurs on the sixty-third day after mating, yet variations of one day, or even two days, either way are not uncommon and have no real significanc...

Chapter IV. Treatment Of The Mother

Usually on the day before whelping, but in some cases a little earlier, there occurs a very noticeable change in the bitch, characterized by nervousness, occasional shivering no matter how warm her qu...

Treatment Of The Mother. Part 2

Obviously the attendants at whelping should be persons to whom the bitches are deeply attached, for in some instances they are very nervous indeed, and at such times are generally beyond the influence...

Treatment Of The Mother. Part 3

During these operations the attendant will occasionally be able to render valuable assistance, but he should never interfere as long as the mother is doing her work speedily and well; and when he does...

Treatment Of The Mother. Part 4

Certainly into this case the question of diet did not enter, for meat had been its principal ingredient from puppy-hood, her owner being strongly prejudiced against all other foods, and it is reasonab...

Chapter V. Care Of The New-Born

Early spring is far the most favorable season for whelping, since ere the youngsters have reached the weaning they can be put out of doors for a few hours at least on all pleasant days, where they are...

Care Of The New-Born. Part 2

Summarizing briefly, for the purpose of emphasizing the first essentials brought out in the foregoing : The puppies should be put to the breasts and made to nurse if possible as soon as the whelping i...

Care Of The New-Born. Part 3

Foster mothers can generally be obtained for trifling sums, but very rarely indeed within a day or even a week; therefore they should be sought for early; and the course that suggests itself as the ea...

Care Of The New-Born. Part 4

Milk properly condensed has essentially the same composition as before evaporation, minus the water, - that is, unless cane sugar has been added or the heat has been carried too high, - but that which...

Care Of The New-Born. Part 5

While fortunate results from this treatment may be rare, in consequence of too great delay, it should always be tried when there appears a living chance, the fact being kept in mind that in these ca...

Care Of The New-Born. Part 6

For instance, in the human race the disturbing passions will cause certain secretions to become corrupted and even acquire poisonous properties. Beyond doubt the same causes are nearly if not quite as...

Chapter VI. Earliest Puppyhood

The first six weeks is practically a puppy's infancy, and during this, as in infancy proper, the mortality is far greater than in any other period of life, for the reason that the resistant powers are...

Earliest Puppyhood. Part 2

A nearer adjustment than this would scarcely be possible without duly considering the influence of existing conditions. For instance, if five or six puppies were together it would not be necessary to ...

Earliest Puppyhood. Part 3

The mother and her puppies should then be taken to a convenient out-building and treated with the same powder, which should be used generously and well worked into their coats. This powder, by the wa...

Earliest Puppyhood. Part 4

In warm weather, when open windows and doors are matters of course, there is but little difficulty in obtaining an abundant supply of fresh air, but the necessity is none the less in cold weather, - a...

Earliest Puppyhood. Part 5

As no better opportunity is likely to be afforded it is well now to call attention to the fact that large breeds at a very early age - even in the fifth or sixth week - sometimes begin to be deformed ...

Earliest Puppyhood. Part 6

Some fanciers sell their poorest puppies first and keep their best until the last. This rule does not conflict with that laid down in the foregoing, - never allow bad specimens to go out at any price,...

Chapter VII. Training

Training is a wide subject, and of much too great importance to warrant mere touch, as would only be possible in this book; moreover, there are but few men capable of handling it as it deserves, for a...

Training. Continued

There is no difficulty in fixing the time at which the education of a puppy should commence, for a person of intelligence can always detect when the little one is capable of reasoning. This stage reac...

Chapter VIII. Intestinal Parasites

The species of worm with which puppies are most often infested is the Ascaris marginata, called also the Ascaris lumbricoides and round worm, which has a certain superficial resemblance to the common ...

Intestinal Parasites. Part 2

Now this symptom, diarrhoea, beyond pointing to worms as the cause, presents peculiarities which are instructive, for they indicate with some degree of certainty whether or not the number of the paras...

Intestinal Parasites. Part 3

Very generally it is between the fifth and seventh weeks that positive symptoms of worms first appear. And duly recognizing the fact that the liability to infection is great, also that a large proport...

Intestinal Parasites. Part 4

Wormseed oil, which, as stated, is the first vermifuge to be given young puppies, should also be mixed with castor oil; and those who desire to use it should show the following directions to their dru...

Chapter IX. Potent Worm-Destroyers

After puppies have passed the tenth week the mildest of the medicines advised, mixture No. i, can be laid aside in a cool place if it is to be kept - and No. 2 used thereafter, in the same way as duri...

Potent Worm-Destroyers. Part 2

At about the eighth month the dose for the toys can be increased to about one-half a teaspoonful; and that will be quite enough for them thereafter, even when matured. As for the small breeds, they w...

Potent Worm-Destroyers. Part 3

It is essential, therefore, to diminish this secretion before commencing the actual treatment, and much can be done in this direction by dietetic means alone. To the desired end for about one week the...

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