Don't, if you can help it, cook the kennel food in the same building occupied by the dogs. The aroma of cooking unsettles them and the spirit of anxious expectancy is often the forerunner of a fight, when a number of dogs are kept in one compartment.

Don't feed cornmeal day in and day out, as many kennelmen unfortunately do. It is handy to cook and cheap, you say. It may be, but its constant use heats the blood, lowers the system and eczema and mange too often follow as a natural consequence. Never feed it in hot weather.

Don't allow your very young puppies to run with the old dogs. Be-Bides the danger from injury in romping with heavier dogs there is also a danger of the older dogs snapping at the youngsters and giving them a nip that will scare the life out of them for a week or longer.

Don't, in your eagerness to show off the gameness of some two or three months old terrier enter him at a rat. A nip from the rodent, that he does not understand, will sometimes ruin a very young dog for future ratting.

Don't throw a dog into water because he does not plunge in at command. If you do, ten to one you will spoil his future as a water dog. Coax him to walk in by degrees, but better still, if possible, let him see some other dog swim out for the stick; if not an inveterate coward he will soon enter into the fun of the thing - and the water.

Don't feed liver and lights to your dogs if you value their health. Such atuff may fill an aching void for the time being, but there is no flesh producing substance in it. The liver will disarrange the internals and you may as well feed so much sponge as the leathery indigestible lights.

Don't forget the bones. Dogs kept in kennels have not as a rule a very merry time of it at best and a good big knuckle bone will serve to while away an odd hour or two, besides cleaning the teeth and inducing a healthy flow of saliva. But use discretion, avoiding chicken bones and small bones.

Don't throw in one bone for two dogs. Reason obvious.. Neither give a hone to bitches suckling or running with puppies. The maternal instinct is strong but the mother while gnawing the bone is not to be depended upon and may give a too venturesome and confiding puppy an ugly bite.

Don't provide high sleeping benches for bitches in whelp, the lower the better so that they may be no danger of incurring a strain which may cause a miscarriage. Have the entrance to the brood bitch kennel as wide as possible and easy of access, with no corners to run round, when running in or out in a hurry the bitch is liable to bump herself. And above all things avoid swinging doors.

Don't neglect ventilation in the kennels. Arrange this so that there is no direct draught on the dogs. A good plan is to have openings under the eaves ol the kennel and inside nail a board the size of the aperture but slanting inwards at an angle of 45 degrees so that the air is directed to the top of the kennel first.

Don't feed raw meat to a dog suffering from diarrhea. Feed starchy foods. A good stiff gruel of flour and water will often stop the complaint in early stages.

Don't think that your duty is done when you have provided kennel runs for your dogs. This fact will not always answer the exercising purpose. The dogs will probably lie around and take a toddle now and again, but no real exercise. Therefore they should be given opportunity for a scamper at least once a day. This is always feasible in the country and really no dogs should be kept in the city, except household pets, and these can always be given a run when you walk, if you care to take the trouble - some people don't, and the dogs suffer.

Don't allow the kennel yards to become littered with manure. Besides being unhealthy and a source of worms, the manure is a saleable commodity and should be regularly taken up, dried and sold to the morocco leather dressers. The bones that accumulate around a kennel can also be disposed of. All these little things count in the conduct of a large kennel.

Don't feed scraps from the table without carefully looking them over before doing so. In the dog's eagerness after dainties he may swallow a hidden fish bone, chicken bone splinter or other pointed substance that may cause trouble afterwards. Also don't feed highly seasoned messes that come from the table just because they are handy and the dog will eat them. It will cost you less in the long run to feed sound wholesome dog food.

Don't use the whip for every little mistake your dog makes. Dogs are not like lions in a cage, to be subdued by a show of force. Talk to the dog and prove to him by action and expression that he has done wrong. A dog follows his master's expression more than you may think he does. Kindness and firmness accomplish more than the lash.

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 whip lash.

Don't enter a kennel without speaking to the dogs, and especially so at night, or in the dark. The magic power of the voice may save you from a bite. When meeting a strange dog always greet him kindly. A soft word will answer better than your boot. And don't thrink from a dog that jumps or runs toward you, this is an exhibition of fear that he is apt to take advantage of, and above all things don't run away from him.

Don't fail to frequently examine your dog's mouth. Teeth may become loose, and thereby interfere with his eating; tartar may form when sloppy, unsuitable food is given, and especially in the case of pet dogs, lap dogs, and so forth, that are fed not wisely but too well, and this should be either brushed away or scraped. Small slivers of bone are apt to run in between the gum and tooth; if not removed, the gum will ulcerate and become very painful, preventing the dog from eating, and while in this off-of-feed condition, you may deem it proper to doctor him for some imaginary illness when a little examination would show you the cause of the trouble.

Don't exercise your dog after a meal, nor yet just before it. How would you like to run half a mile after a good feed?

Don't feed sloppy food to the dogs; that soft of stuff may be all right to fill pigs with, but a dog's grinders were made for something more substantial. If you are a father you will know it is customary to give teething babies something to use their gums on. Puppies are four-legged babies, and they require similar treatment when teething. Chuck the puppy a bone or a biscuit and that will help the grinders along.

Don't think because you know what you wish your dog to do that he can grasp your meaning off-hand and without effort on your part; dogs are intelligent, but they are not clairvoyants.

Don't buy drugs in great quantities as they become inert or greatly deteriorate by keeping, especially when exposed to light and air; therefor, buy such drugs only in quantities for immediate use, and from those whose judgment in selection and whose fair dealing can be depended on.

Don't treat your dogs as simply so many animals that have to be fed and housed. We can not 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. The dog's whole-souled look of affection will repay the man of feeling for all the trouble he may put himself to in this direction, and it will last longer than a good many other loves. If you want to win prizes with them, accustom them to being handled and to show themselves off to the best advantage. Nothing makes an owner look so foolish as to try and show a dog that does not know him or that is "contrary." A good puppy is often placed back because he is taken into the ring without any thought of preparation for the trying ordeal. Accustom your dogs to being shown up in collar and chain. They soon grasp the idea, for there is vanity in dogs as well as human beings.

Don't wash puppies when they are very young, unless they happen to get into some filth that can not be removed when dry by the brush. Don't wash puppies until at least six months old. Grooming and "elbow grease" every day will improve the coat and do more good than washing.

Don't let your pup, or pups, get into the habit of barking violently, a most tiresome trick, coming of idleness and not enough out door exercise, and also sometimes hereditary.

Scold them, and keep a switch in the corner, for a nip now and then; they will soon pay attention.