Show Care of Household Household Pets I have seen a number of prescriptions for the relief or cure of skin diseases on cats or dogs but not one person has told how bow to prevent those diseases I have raised many kittens and puppies and when they six months old never allow them to taste raw meat and very little cooked Milk and potatoes should constitute their food with a bone now and then for pup to try his sharp little 1 teeth upon and then It must be cooked After six months they can have bave cooked meat once daily dally in small quantities I 1 give my m handsome spaniel whose black glossy coat re repays repays repays pays me for tor my care beef liver with sometimes fried mush Some chop the meat up and mix It with corn meal mush Let It boil boll and when cool slice it After a dog Is 4 years old do not give ghe him bones to gnaw for he be Is too old and his teeth cannot grind It fine enough I 1 had a dog who seemed s med to have mange or skin disease that caused him hUn to bite his back until it was ray his bis hair came out and nothing I applied did him any lasting good As my husband bus band Is a druggist I had bad free access to all sorts of remedies but I changed his food from raw meat to cooked gave a bone only at long intervals and he be has bas almost re recovered recovered recovered covered Raw neat meat will irritate the skin of any domestic animal Some own dogs and cats but they do not keep them They feed them If they happen to be around at meal men time with any scraps convenient A domestic pet will show by his clean sprightly appearance that he be Is not only owned but kept by one who loves loes and cares for tor him bim His appearance app arance Is an Index to the character of his owner R T T f f Go The correspondents who fill my mall mail bag with anxious queries respecting the maladies of ot their respective house bouse household household hold pets never alluded to by them as brutes or beasts should pass a vote rote of thanks to this sensible woman for preaching hygienic b measures rather than cure If we are disposed to smile mischievously at the connection In which the circumstance that she Is a druggists wife wite is men mentioned mentioned we must bear in mind that she has bas by virtue of this circumstance the better right to claim a hearing She has had exceptional opportunities for weighing the com comparative comparative values of ot prevention and remedy |