Keeping a Yard Dog

Information on keeping a yard dog.

Keeping a Yard Dog

Keeping a yard-dog seems to be in many cases an excuse for never letting a dog off the chain. If a little exercise is thought necessary, it is attained in some cases by adding an extra length of chain strong enough to hold an ox! A very simple way to give a dog exercise on the chain is to hang a strong wire in such a manner that, with a chain of ordinary length attached to a ring on the wire, the dog can get into his kennel. The other end of the wire (supposing one end to be attached to the building near which the kennel is placed) is to be fastened to anything convenient another building, a tree or post far enough away to give the dog a good run from one end to the other. If one end is attached to a tree or post, put it higher than at the other end. Then at a distance far enough from the post to prevent the dog from going around it, fasten another piece of wire, which pass through an eyelet fixed lower down on the post and pull tight the long wire may have a little slack to permit of this. You will thus stop the ring from coming further than is wanted. Have the wires so stretched that, if possible, one end of the run will always be in the shade, and do not forget in winter to turn the kennel to face the south, putting a piece of sacking over the entrance and a good bed of straw inside, on top of an old newspaper. Do not think any less of your watch-dog than did those old Iranians of whom you may have read about in our ancient history of the dog.

Some ideas present by others for keeping your yard dogs happy

• Our dogs were kennelled to the petroleum barrels and their chains attached to rings sliding on wires which extended to another row of spruce trees.
• A wire on which the sliding ring is put runs from the post near the dog to the kennel seta below the bets

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