The use of a hound-glove, chamois leather, and brush and comb, with an occasional bath, will do the rest.
It is better to wash your dog several days before the show, because the water destroys the natural lubricant, or that making the hair glossy.
Curly-coated Retrievers are improved in tightness of curl by the use of cold water.
CHAPTER XVII
Specific Ailments
Distemper—Rabies—Blood-Poisoning—Rheumatism or Kennel Lameness
Under the title of "Specific" Ailments, the author deems it advisable to give a brief account of such diseases as distemper, blood-poisoning, rabies or madness, rheumatism, kennel lameness, or chest founder, these complaints having as their cause germs, or micro-organisms; the production of these ailments—in three of them at least—being due to the entrance of minute organisms into the system, the excretions, or poisonous products resulting in the several forms of disease, as named above.
By far the commonest of these specific canine ailments is—