In case the bitch should lose her pups, she must be fed sparingly and her breasts should be gently rubbed with camphorated oil to prevent caking.  It is not uncommon for Boston terrier pups to be born with hare-lips, in which case it is far better to put them to sleep at once, as they rarely ever live and are a deformity if they do.  Be sure that the puppies’ quarters have abundance of sunshine and fresh air, or they will never thrive as they should, but will be prone to disease.  They are very much like plants in this respect.  When the pups are four weeks old (I used to commence at five, but so many deaths have occurred in my kennels that of late I have commenced a week earlier), give them a mild vermifuge for worms.  No matter if they do not show symptoms of harboring these pests, do it just the same.  You will doubtless discover the reason very soon.  Only those who have had experience in handling and breeding puppies are aware of their danger from worms.  I know of nothing more disappointing than to go to the kennel and find the fine litter of pups that looked so promising, and on which such high hopes had been placed, with distended stomachs and the flesh literally wasted away.  When this is the case do not waste a moment, administer the vermifuge.  If the intestinal walls have not yet been perforated by these pests, or too great an inflammation of the alimentary canal produced, or convulsions occasioned by the impression of the worms upon the head center of the nervous system have not yet taken place, the pups, or most of them, can be saved.  Hence the need of taking time by the forelock and getting rid of the worms before they get in their work.  There are all kinds of worm medicines on the market, and I have tried them all.  While some are all right for older pups, many of them have proven too harsh in their effects and puppies as well as worms have been destroyed.  The following recipe I know will rid the little tots of their trouble without injuring them: 

    Wormseed oil, sixteen drops. 
    Oil of turpentine, two drops. 
    Oil of anise, sixteen drops. 
    Olive oil, three drachms. 
    Castor oil, four drachms.

Put into a two-ounce bottle, warm slightly, shake well, and give one-half teaspoonful, floated on the same quantity of milk.  If the worms do not pass away, repeat the dose the next day.

To those who would rather administer the dose in the form of a capsule, then I strongly recommend Spratts’ Puppy Capsules, except when the pups are unusually small.  I have just written to the Spratts people, telling them that their puppy capsules are too large for very small pups of the Boston terrier breed, and their manager has assured me he will have some made half the size.  I think when the pups are about seven weeks old, when they are generally weaned, it is good, safe, precautionary measure to give them another dose of worm medicine, when we use,

    Santonine, four grains. 
    Wormseed oil, twenty drops. 
    Oil of turpentine, three drops. 
    Olive of anise, sixteen drops. 
    Olive oil, two drachms. 
    Castor oil, six drachms.