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Found this wonderful snippet on today's calendar from Gervase Markham's Country Contentments (1615)
'Now,for the ordering of your hounds after they have been done hunting,you shall,as soon as you bring them into the kennel wash all their feet either with a little warm butter and beer,with beef broth,or with water wherein mallows and nettles have been boiled soft and tender,and then search the foot for thorns,stubs or any other pricklings.....If it be in the strength of winter,after they are fed,you shall suffer them for an hour or two to break and stretch themselves before the fire.But that once that is finished,you shall force them from the fire and make them find out their own lodgings'.
'Now,for the ordering of your hounds after they have been done hunting,you shall,as soon as you bring them into the kennel wash all their feet either with a little warm butter and beer,with beef broth,or with water wherein mallows and nettles have been boiled soft and tender,and then search the foot for thorns,stubs or any other pricklings.....If it be in the strength of winter,after they are fed,you shall suffer them for an hour or two to break and stretch themselves before the fire.But that once that is finished,you shall force them from the fire and make them find out their own lodgings'.
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