The pups when first born, are taken from the bitch, and put to a sucking ewe, already deprived of her own lamb.
We did not then know of any enterprise of that kind, but I remembered in the zoölogical gardens at Washington seeing a healthy batch of young fox pupsborn in captivity.
Some of the young fox pups were very tame, for I find an old record written by a professor of Harvard University, while he was on board the Strathcona on one trip when we were bringing some of the little creatures to St. Anthony.
The pups were lank and weedy and not nearly so capable as the ordinary Straits breed.
She sat on the bed and placed the pups in her lap beside Johnny.
When he reached his house he laid the pups on his bed and built a fire.
But when the broth was prepared, and cooled enough, the pups could not eat it.
He could remember playing with Sigyn's pups and he could remember Sigyn watching over them all, sometimes giving her pups a bath and his face a washing with equal disregard for their and his protests.
Her breasts showed that she had had pups recently but she had been dead at least two days.
Ragnarok when children would play in the grass with prowler pups and the time would come when men and prowlers, side by side, would face the Gerns.
He carried the pups back past the prowler and looked down at it in passing.
Females with pups were seen but always at a great distance as though the prowlers, like humans, took no chances with the lives of their children.
To all these solicitations, the owner usually replies that he will not decide upon what pups he means to keep for himself until after seven days.
This reservation has its motive in a very singular observation, or fancy, of the Arabs: in every litter, one of the pups gets upon the back of the others.
The boys drive out of their holes the jerboa, or the rat called boualal, and set the pups at them.
Thus it was with every imaginable thing -- from barrels of paraffin and new-born pups to writing materials and charts.
During the whole voyage only two deaths occurred from sickness -- one was the case of a bitch that died after giving birth to eight pups -- which might just as easily have caused her death under other conditions.
For example, many dog-breeders assert that if a thoroughbred bitch has ever had pups by a mongrel father, her later offspring, although sired by a thoroughbred, will show taints of the former mongrel mating.
Their pups are, however, able to run down the fleetest hares without difficulty.
If a pure-bred bitch once produce a mongrel litter, no matter how carefully she be subsequently matched, she will have a tendency to give birth to pups with a mongrel taint.
And afterwards the girl said to him that they would make their escape; and they got into a boat; and what she brought with her was the three young pups of the dog that minded the giant's house.
But as soon as the dog came close to them, and opened its mouth to take hold of her, she put one of the pups into it, and it turned back to the shore again to bring the pup safe to land.
Sometimes when your dog trails in near the pups you will get a fight, and sometimes they will jump out and run for it.
The pups will be stronger and better in every way than if the mother had been housed in all the time, and a hunter will find that a pup so bred will take to hunting almost as soon as he can run.
Sometimes if the pups are quite young you will find the mother in with them and for the first few days she will be found near them, but as they grow older she will be found farther away.
First, select good healthy pups, raise them up friendly and don't whip or cow them in any way until about ten or twelve months old, for if pups get cowed when young they will never get over it.
One has to have good parent hounds, and while the mother dog is carrying the pups she must be worked on whatever you want your pups to run.
We treed an old bear, and these pups kept right on and treed two cubs, and barked up and stayed until we found them after we had the old one skinned and cut up.
I commence to care for the pups by giving the bitch plenty of exercise before they are born.
With a 22 rifle I shoot thepups in the head and then they are easily pulled out with the fish hooks.
When the pupsget too large and strong to pull out alive, I put a candle on the stick, shove it into the den and lay on my stomach.
While the fur of the adult animals is of little value at that time and that of the young is not worth saving, the bounty which is usually paid for wolf and coyote pups will fully compensate for all loss from that source.
Then if he will only run a short distance after starting the wolf and come back and hunt the pups and then bark at them when found, you have a good dog that is worth a large price.
This works the best of anything I have ever tried; where pups are small.
The writer well remembers the first litter of pups he was fortunate enough to capture.
By placing my ear to the mouth of the burrow, I could hear the pups whining.
The young wolves should be killed immediately and live pups should never be handled with bare hands, as blood poisoning is likely to result from a bite.
Illustration: Young Wolf Pupsat the Entrance of a Den.
One den of 8 very young wolfpups was taken March 13.
I have gotten many a bunch or pups this way, when my pick or shovel would be five or six miles away.
Shove your stick in the den among the pups and turn or twist it and you will soon have a pup hooked.
It was a very fortunate thing for the pups and their mother and the horses and every one on the place, too, that Jack had seen fit to take up his abode on the premises—but we will tell what happened.
Two or threepups would have been left with Desdemona; the others would have been taught to derive their nutriment and nursing from some plebeian little shepherd bitch, specially bereaved of her own offspring for this purpose.
I've reared too many big wolfhound pups to make that mistake.
In the cave, a very few seconds showed Desdemona that two of her pups were dead.
She certainly was thinner than hounds who live with men-folk grow; for she had gone rather short of food while nursing her pups and had had to hunt for most of the food she did get.
Finding that she paid no heed to him, Finn turned from her gravely and walked within to where the three remaining pups lay.
To see her lower herself again to make of her aching body a nest and bulwark for the pups was to see a really beautiful study of animal motherhood.
I thought at first it was the pups that had to be dressed up, but it seems it was costumes for her and brother and sister to wear; so I asked a few more silly questions and found out the mystery.
Then we rode on down toward Cousin Egbert's shack, with nothing further happening and the pups staying back in a highly conservative manner.
Everything seemed to be firm, however, and they left the pups to their own devices.
The box containing the wolf pups was now brought up, the little fellows one by one were taken out of their sacks, their lashings cut, and they were dropped into the cage, and then the last two poles were placed in position and fastened.
They could build a log pen, but if they did that the pups would be likely to dig out under the logs.
Those five pups during the winter would have eaten five hundred dollars' worth of beef, and might have killed five thousand dollars' worth.
I have never seen a tame wolf, myself, though I have heard of many of them; but I fancy that pups that are caught as old as he seemed to be do not ever really get tame.
These pups can't run very fast yet, and you'll have plenty of time to take a careful sight at them, and get them.
I want to show you twelve pups that I've got at the ranch.
Hugh went up to look at the place, and returning, announced that he believed the pups were still there.
You are welcomed there by a sportive litter of pariah pups who have an al fresco lodging here on a luxurious bed of melon-skins, which provide food and bedding at the same time, and quite a plentiful supply of each during the season.
The ash man said he'd take the pups away if I gave him two dollars," she said.
And his pups will be worth fifty dollars per pup easily, with that pedigree.
In order to obtain short-tailed pups the owner had the tails of both shortened.
The bitch from that time produced repeatedly short-tailed pups only.
Cleft palates were also observed in a number of pupsborn in Buffalo.
It is not unusual to find mange inpups fresh from kennel, and care should be taken that the brush is not used on the affected animal.
During the hot summer months it is best to give pups very little cooked meat, but plenty of cooked vegetables, biscuit, house scraps of bread, &c.
The pups should have plenty of clean dry straw for their bedding, and boards are far safer and more comfortable for them to lie on than bricks, which are always more or less cold and damp.
After the pups have got accustomed to getting out of the way of fast traffic, it is excellent training for them to learn to follow a bicycle, Fig.
There will be no howling, as the pups know very well that they have transgressed, and will show it on the way home by answering promptly when they are called.
My pups must have contracted the disease from a neighbouring farmer's dog who died of it in great agony with an abscess in his throat.
I am proud of him, for all of the Pytchley pups of the first, or spring batch, which were distributed in this village died of distemper with the exception of my couple.
Riding with pups is excellent practice in bicycle control!
From bicycle exercise we passed to the higher stage of taking out the pups with horses, but I regret we did not continue the bicycle training, because one day the bolder hound of the two (Fig.
Well, and how about your taking greyhoundpups as bribes?
Well, greyhound pups or anything else, it's all the same.
Versed in the patience-fraying ways of pups in general, the Mistress and the Master marveled and bragged and praised.
Fighting for calmness, he asked: "Do I understand that you shot those harmless little pupsjust because a dog that was sick, and not rabid, happened to nip them?
Nine pupsabout six weeks old were taken by members of a posse which went into the mountains when the attack was reported by Munson.
Only the whine ofpups near by prevented Munson from killing the canine.
I'll have those pups understand that if ever they expect to see any inheritance from me they'll have to prepare themselves to step into my shoes!
How are we going to make men of those pups if we don't rouse their pride?
When I was going away, Cherry and the pupswere located in some stables.
Presently I went away, and when I came back I found Cherry had carried all the pups on to the top of my luggage, and evidently had not the least intention of staying behind.
Nora looked at me a little strange at first, but soon recognized me, and her pups are splendid.
Then Manna told about Roland, and could always make Heimchen laugh by describing how his little pups tumbled one another over and over.
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