If toy bitches are bred, look out for breakers ahead; only a very small per cent. live to play with their little ones.  A toy bitch, bred to a toy dog, will frequently have but one pup, and that quite a large one in proportion to the size of parents.  When a toy bitch is bred, attend carefully to these three things.  See that the dog used is small in himself, comes from small stock, and does not possess too large a head.  Secondly, be sure the bitch is kept in rather poor condition, in other words, not too fat; and thirdly, and this is the most important of all, see that she has all the natural exercise she can be induced to take.  These conditions strictly and faithfully adhered to may result in success.

In the next place, the consideration of the dog to be used is in order.  Whether he be a first prize winner or an equally good dog that has never been shown (and the proportion of the best raised dogs that appear on the bench is very small) insist on the following rules: 

Be sure that the dog is typical with first class constitution, vigorous, and possessing an ideal disposition, and what is of the utmost importance, that he comes from a line of ancestry eminently noted for these characteristics.  Breed to no other, though he were a winner of a thousand first prizes.  I prefer a symmetrical dog weighing from sixteen to twenty pounds, rather finer in his make-up than the bitch, and possessing the indefinable quality of style, and evidences in his make-up courage and a fine, open, generous temperament.  Do not breed to a dog that is overworked in the stud, kept on a board floor chained up in a kennel or barn, and never given a chance to properly exercise.  If you do the chances are that one of three things will happen:  the bitch will not be in whelp (the most likely result) the pups, or some of them will be born dead, and one runs an awful risk of the bitch dying, or, if alive at birth, a very small per cent. only of the pups will live to reach maturity.  I think Boston terriers are particularly susceptible to worms or distemper, and it is absolutely imperative that they should not be handicapped at the onset.

One other very important factor is natural exercise for the bitch.  Unless one is willing to take the necessary pains to give her this, give up all expectation of ever succeeding in raising puppies.

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Someone asked a noted critic whom he considered the best singer he had ever heard, and he answered, “Patti.”  In being asked who came next, he replied, “Patti;” and on being questioned who was his third choice, gave the same answer.  Were I asked the three most important essentials for the success of the brood bitch, I should say, “Exercise, exercise, exercise.”  By this I do not mean leading with a chain, running behind a horse or team, but the natural exercise a