Don't wash a bitch while in season.

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 instance, see that she has a warm bed and rug 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 teaspoonful daily to a pup is sufficient.

Don't, if you can avoid it, keep your bitches in whelp in kennels or jards where they must continually jump up on their hind legs in order to lock 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 breed- • ers 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 afterward.

Don't give up hope of a sick dog; they have most remarkable recuperative powers and will frequently take a right turn when least expected.

Don't if a dog is doing well without medicine, force it on him, and, , as a rule, if a dog is resting quietly or sleeping, do not disturb him to give him medicine.

Don't in buying medicine, be satisfied with anything but the very best. Beware of cheap, coarse castor oil, adulterated quinine and cod liver oil, and it may also be stated that some of the proprietary medicines on the market are dangerous.

Don't guess at doses, measure them carefully and if the medicine is ' to be given at night keep the dog confined until morning.

Don't expect a puppy to know as much as an adult dog.

Don't keep a dog unless you are fond of it.

Don't expect to house-break a pup in a week.

Don't ill-use him because he does not understand you.

Don't wait too long to break him to chain and collar.

Don't think that a dog has no likes or dislikes.

Don't whip him if he barks at a stranger, and never kick your dog.

Don't allow him to have his own way, but be firm and determined with him, using only enough punishment to control him, if you can't accomplish it by talking to him.

Don't allow your dog to stray too far from you in the streets, and make him obedient to call.

Don't allow him to cross the street unless he is near to you for fear of being run over by an auto or street car.

Don't be afraid to give your clog plenty of exercise.

Don't feed him around the table.

Don't give him chicken bones; they are dangerous.

Don't ignore his instincts and think that he can live on starchy foods alone.

Don't entertain the false notion that meat produces fits or mange.

Don't give him a taste for candies.

Don't worry over every little thing that appears to be out of the ordinary in your dog. There are days when you don't feel well, and don't feel like playing. It's the same with a dog.

Don't treat your dogs as so many animals that have to be fed and housed. We cannot 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.

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 breaks no bones, and you can control it better than a whiplash.

Don't wait until disease has gotten so secure a hold that it cannot he quickly eradicated. This is a weakness characteristic of a great many dog-owners. The "go off and eat grass and get well" theory doesn't hold good in this latter day civilization.

Don't administer liquids to dogs while the mouth is open. Close the mouth tightly, hold the hand over his nose and lower jaw, and by making a funnel of the side lips, keep the head erect and pour the liquid through the teeth.

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 thoughtfulness.

Don't forget that where a number of dogs are kept, regularity and eystem should prevail. Insist that your kennelman have a certain hour for exercising, grooming, and especially feeding. Slip-shod methods are just as productive of 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.