KENNEL NOTES

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7020, 7 January 1910, Page 11

KENNEL NOTES

By "Fitzroy." OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE WELLINGTON KENNEL CLUB. Correspondence is invited from canine fanciers and others interested in this column. Letters will be treated confidentially, and questions answered (through the column) at the earliest opportunity. Correspondents are requested to sign their names, but a noni do pluino may also bo used if necessary.Letters should roach this office not later than Wednesday for reply in the following .Friday's issue. The principal features to look for when choosing a very young bulldog puppy are —short face, body, logs and tail, groat bono and big-skull. "Flo" (Palmerston North) asks whether it is advisable to exhibit a puppy at kennel shows. It is running a risk to exhibit a very young puppy, and a useless procedure. Judges cannot form an adequate idea, of the merit of a puppy under six months, and thero is considerable risk of a chill or' siokness occasioned by excitemont. ■ Many experts advise not to show a puppy unleEs. it is eight or nine months of ago, and then only it it has bocn through distemper. In cases of epilepsy it is best to leavo tho dog alone, unless one convulsion is succeeded quickly by another, in -which cases two or three drops (according to the size of the dog)' of nitrate of amyl held to the nose on a piece of blotting paper lessens the severity of tho convulsions. Chloroform similarly applied answers the same purpose. Directly the patient is able to swallow, give a dose of hydrated ohloral and bromide of potassium, from three to twenty grains. of each, in . from two teaspoonfuls to two tablespoonfuls of water. This may be repeated in one, two, three, or four hours, according to the necessity, and under any circumstances tho bromide alone' should be given three or four times a day for a week or so after the attack. When a dog has had a succession of fits, a long course of bromide of potassium will often effect a cure. The diet should be light and consist principally of milk. In all cases free . purging does good, _ , : . A French physiologist has - just carried out an,extraordinary experiment, the object of/which was to demonstrate that tho larnyx plays an important part in articulation. He first ■"■ direoted a current of electricity into the larnyx of a dead dog. Then, with a small pair of bellows, he filled the dogs air passages. The result was a series of sounds resembling the barking of a living dog. " ' :■'• ,-' 1