A great injustice is done to a great many dogs by the old saying that "dogs delight to bark and bite," for there are very many that do not delight in either, but are to the contrary, properly behaved dogs in this respect. Some clogs do, however, but generally in self defense, or at supposed call of duty. Should your dog get bitten, wash the wound with tepid water, press out any blood, and pour a little of friar's balsam, or compound tincture of myrh on it.

Since the above was written, I was bitten on the left hand in fourteen places, by a Bulldog I was showing in the ring, at the 1916 dog show at Louisville, Ky., State Fair, really the worst chewing up I ever got. Was taken to the hospital near the dog show. The doctor washed the hand, then dressed it with tincture of Iodine, and then applied a healing salve called "Unguentine," (to be had at any drug store), repeating this daily while show lasted, and I done the same for a week after home. The hand wrapped with cotton and bandage, and the result was my hand got entirely well. I will just mention, however, that the poor dog, after home, as at the show, where for some cause he suddenly went off his base, continued here to be crazy, did not try again to bite me (we were friends), but did bite every dog he got at here, and suddenly died three days later, being buried by me in my back yard, under an apple tree - and I miss poor "Wrinks." I find that many doctors now use tincture of Iodine, the first thing, on a bite or wound, in place of cauterizing, and I strongly advise doing so, and then the salve. The first thing to do if you are bitten, is to suck the bite, if on any part of your body you can get at with your mouth, and spit this out, which abstracts any poison - if any poison, from the bite. Don't be afraid of a dog's bite, don't get scared, the only danger is, a small percentage of blood poison setting in, but if your own blood is in good condition there is no danger. "Wrinks" case, with almost every veterinarian, would have been a sure case of rabies, but as I don't believe in this, I am yet here writing this article.

Instead of cauterizing a bite, which always makes a nasty looking wound, I much prefer to use the tincture of Iodine (using a small brush), or if this is not on hand, then apply Peroxyde of Hydrogen, which will do all the cauterizing will do.

Should your dog be bitten by a strange dog and any suspicion exists of so-called rabies in the strange dog, immediately use the tincture of Iron, or Peroxyde of Hydrogen, and isolate the dog until the time has passed for any fear of hydrophobia developing. This advice is given to those who believe in the so-termed hydrophobia, and you are referred now to Rabies, where I give fully my own belief on this subject, as well as the ideas of others. In case there is a tear, it may be necessary to bandage or draw together with a few stitches of silk thread.