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Title: Kennel secrets : how to breed, exhibit, and mannage dogs
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Perry, Joseph Franklin, 1846-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs -- Diseases
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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at, therefore, must have slow, steady,and long continued work, be they sporting or non-sporting. The baneful effects of too much fat are felt by dogs aswell as bitches, although of variable intensity. When theamount of fat is excessive, for breeding purposes thebitches are generally ruined by it, they becoming totallybarren. To dogs, however, the effects are, as a rule, lessserious, for they may be reproductive to a limited extent;yet their get are seldom more than indifferent specimens.They lack tone and vigor, if not actual weaklings, and arepredisposed to disease, by reason of their delicacy. Rickets or an abnormal condition akin to it is account-able for many deformities. This disease, however, cannotbe passed on to offspring, but in all cases in which itexists there is some constitutional weakness or defectwhich is transmissible; consequently the get are predis-posed to this and indeed many other constitutional diseases.That is, because of rickets and the like in sire or dam, the
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