|
Dog Kennel Donts.
Dog Kennel Care - Don'ts
Don't breed a bitch until the colored discharge has ceased. Don't breed a valuable stud dog several times to one season. One service is just as good if not better than half a dozen. Don't wash the bitch while in whelp. If she should get wet, out shooting for instancy, see that she has a warm bed and rub her down before she retires. Don't, give your dogs hot food; it is not natural, injures their teeth and leads to indigestion. Don't prevent a bitch that is in whelp from eating whatever she pleases, though if you find she has a penchant for filthy matter, carrion and other flotsam and jetsam of the street let her have her way or, better give her sulphur in her feed. Don't send your bitches into water while in whelp at any rate not after the fourth week. Don't keep your bitches in whelp chained up or kenneled continually, they should have plenty of gentle walking exercise every day, especially the last three weeks before whelping. Don't neglect to feed your brood bitches with every food that will strengthen and stimulate the mother in the trying periods of pregnancy and while suckling pups. It is impossible for a hen to cover the egg meat with hard shell unless it have access to lime and other shell producing matter. So with the bitch; when her puppies are required to show bone this state is greatly aided by supplying bone producing foods. Precipitated phosphate of lime should be given to the bitch in her food during the last weeks of pregnancy and after whelping and then 'to the puppies until two or three months old. Half a teaspoonfui daily to a pup is sufficient. Don't, if you can avoid it, keep your bitches in whelp in kennels or yards where they must continually jump up on their hind legs in order to look upon the outer world; have open wire or slats for fencing and divisions. If you must have solid partitions build them so high that the bitch will never attempt to jump up in order to look over. More puppies are slipped and more bitches miss from this abnormal exercise than most breeders imagine. Don t wash a dog and then allow it to run around and dry itself. If you take enough interest in 'the dog to wash it, you should not be too lazy to dry him afterwards. Don't because you can trust your house pet not to abuse your confidence, keep him shut up in the house for hours. Some dogs are so refined in their habits that they will suffer agonies rather 'than take advantage of your thoughtlessness. Don't forget that where a number of dogs are kept, regularity and system should prevail. Insist that your kennelman have a certain hour for exercising, grooming, and especially feeding. Slip-shod methods are just as productive ol' non-success in dog-breeding as in any other business undertaking. With regular hours for different work, the dogs become settled in their habits, are not continually restless and on the move; consequently there is little noise and the neighbors are not disturbed. Don't, if you can help it, cook the kennel food in the same building occupied by the dogs. The aroma of cooking unsettles them and the spirit of anxious expectancy is often the forerunner of a fight, when a number of dogs are kept in one compartment. Don't feed cornmeal day in and day out, as many kennelmen unfortunately do. It is handy to cook and cheap, you say. It may be, but its constant use heats the blood, lowers the system and eczema and mange too often follow as a natural consequence. Never feed it in hot weather.
Don't allow your very young puppies to run with the old dogs. Besides the danger from injury in romping with heavier dogs there is also a danger of the older dogs snapping at the youngsters and giving them a nip that will scare the life out of them for a week or longer. Don't, in your eagerness to show off the gameness of some two or three months old terrier enter him at a rat. A nip from the rodent, that he does not understand, Will sometimes ruin a very young dog for future ratting. Don't throw a dog into water because he does not plunge in at command. If you do, ten to one you will spoil his future as a water dog. Coax him to walk in by degrees, but. Better still, if possible, let him see some other dog swim out for the stick; if not an inveterate coward he will soon enter into the fun of the thing and the water. Don't feed liver and lights to your dog if you value their health. Such stuff may fill an aching void for the time being, but there is no flesh producing substance fn it. The liver will disarrange the internals a.nd you may as well feed so much sponge as the leathery indigestible lights. Don't forget the bones. Dogs kept in kennels have not as a rule a very. Merry time of it at best and a good big knuckle bone will serve to while away an odd hour or two, besides cleaning the teeth and inducing a healthy flow of saliva. But use discretion, avoiding chicken bones and small bones. Don't throw in one bone for two dogs. Reason obvious. Neither give a bone to bitches suckling or running wf.th puppies; The maternal instinct is strong but the mother while gnawing the bone is not to be depended upon and may give a too venturesome and confiding puppy an ugly bite. Don't provide high sleeping benches for bitches in whelp, the lower the better so that there may be no danger of incurring a strain which may cause a miscarriage. Have the entrance to the brood bitch kennel as wide as possible and easy of access, with no corners to run round, when running in or out in a hurry the bitch is liable to bump herself. And above all things avoid swinging doors. Don't neglect ventilation in the kennels. Arrange this so that there is no direct draught on the dogs. A good plan is to have openings under the eaves of the kennel and inside nail a board the size of the aperture but slanting inwards at an angle of 45 degrees so that the air is directed to the top of the kennel first. Don't feed raw meat to a dog suffering from diarrhea. Feed starchy foods. A good stiff gruel of flour and water will often stop the complaint in early stages. Don't think that your duty is done when you have provided kennel runs for your dogs. This fact will not always answer the exercising purpose. The dogr, will probably lie around and take a toddle now and again, but no real exercise. Therefore they should be given opportunity for a scamper at least once a day. This is always feasible in the country and really no dogs should be kept in the city, except household pets, and these can always be given a run when you walk, if you care to take the trouble some people don't, and the dogs suffer. Don't allow the kennel yards to become littered with manure. Besides being unhealthy and a source of worms, the manure is a saleable commodity and should be regularly taken up, dried and sold to the morocco leather dressers, The bones that accumulate around a kennel can also be disposed of. All these little things count in the conduct of a large kennel. Don't feed scraps from the table without carefully looking them over before doing so. In the dog's eagerness after dainties he may swallow a hidden fish bone, chicken bone splinter or other pointed substance that may cause trouble afterwards. Also don't feed highly seasoned messes that come from the table just because they are handy and the dog will eat them. It will cost you less in the long run to feed sound wholesome dog food. Don't use the whip for every little mistake your dog makes. Dogs are not like lions in a cage, to be subdued by a show of force. Talk to the dog and prove to him by action and expression that he has done wrong. A dog follows his master's expression more than you may think he does. Kindness and firmness accomplish more than the lash. Don't lose your temper and kick a dog. The dog is apt to consider the kicking leg an enemy and treat it as such, and this may be uncomfortable for you. Besides a kick in passion may do an irreparable injury to the dog. If a whip must be used a thin rawhide is the best; it hurts and breakes no bones, and you can control it better than a whip lash. Don't enter a kennel without speaking to the dogs, and especially so at night, or in the dark. The magic power of the voice may save you from a bite. When meeting a strange dog always greet him kindly. A soft word will answer better than your boot. And don't shrink from a dog that jumps or runs toward you, this is an exhibition of fear that he is apt to take advantage of, and above all things don't run away from him. Don't fail to frequently examine your dog's mouth. Teeth may become loose, and thereby interfere with his eating; tartar may form when sloppy, unsuitable food is given, and especially in the case of pet dogs, lap dogs, and so forth, that are fed not wisely but too well, and this should be either brushed away or scraped. Small slivers of bone are apt to run in between the gum and tooth; if not removed, . The gum will ulcerate and become very painful, preventing the dog from eating, and while in this off-of-feed condition, you may deem it proper to doctor him for some imaginary illness when a little examination would show you the cause of the trouble. Don't exercise your dog after a meal, nor yet just before it. How would you like to run half a mile after a good feed ? Don't feed sloppy food to the dogs; that sort of stuff may be all right to fill pigs with, but a dog's grinders were made for something more substantial. If you are a father you will know it is customary to give teething babies something to use their gums on. Puppies are four legged babies, and they require similar treatment when teething. Chuck the puppy a bone or a biscuit and that will help the grinders along.Don't think because you know what you wish your dog to do that he can grasp your meaning off-hand and without effort on your part; dogs are intelligent, but they are not clairvoyants. Don't buy drugs in great quantities as they become inert or greatly deteriorate by keeping, especially when exposed to light and air; therefore, buy such drugs only in quantities for immediate use, and from those whose judgment in selection and whose fair dealing can be depended on. Don't treat your dogs as simply so many animals that have to be fed and housed. We can not understand keeping dogs under such conditions. Handle your dogs, make friends with them, because they are dogs. A man need never be ashamed of loving a dog. The dog's whole-souled look of affection will repay the man of feeling for all the trouble be may put himiself to in this direction, and it will last longer than a good many other loves. If you want to win prizes with them, accustom them to being handled and to show themselves off to the best advantage. Nothing makes an owner look so foolish as to try and show a dog that does not know him or that is "contrary." A good puppy is often placed back bocause he is taken into the ring without any thought of preparation for thlfe trying ordeal. Accustom your dogs to being shown up in collar and chain. They soon grasp the idea, for their is vanity in dogs as well as human beings. Don't wash puppies when they are very young, unless they happen to get into some filth that can not be removed when dry by the brush. Don't wash puppies until at least six months old. Grooming and "elbow grease" every day will improve the coat and do more good than washing. Don't let your pup, or pups, get into the habit of barking violently, a most tiresome trick, coming of idleness and not enough out door exercise, and also sometimes hereditary. Scold them, and keep a switch in the corner, for a nip now and then; they will soon pay attention.
Link to This Page From Your Site or Blog
Related Items:
|
