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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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Breeders
of
Toy-dogs
often
rear
the
overplus
offspring
by
hand,
with
the
help
of
a
Maw
and
Thompson
feeding-bottle,
peptonised
milk,
and
one
or
more
of
the
various
advertised
infants'
foods
or
orphan
puppy
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,
and
her
own
family
ought
to
be
of
the
same
age
as
the
one
of
which
she
is
to
take
additional
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
circumstance
that
by
far
the
larger
number
of
"lost"
dogs
are
bitches
sent
adrift
because
they
are
in
whelp.
The
chief
risk
in
this
course
is
that
the
unknown
foster-mother
may
be
diseased
or
verminous
or
have
contracted
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
puppyhood,
and
if
the
sire
and
dam
are
properly
attended
to
in
advance
they
need
not
be.
The
writer
has
attended
at
the
birth
of
puppies,
not
one
of
whom
has
shown
the
remotest
sign
of
having
a
worm,
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
provocating.
The
puppy
that
is
free
from
worms
starts
life
with
a
great
advantage.
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