A Training School for Dogs.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 54, 2 July 1887, Page 4 (Supplement)

A Training School for Dogs.

An insbibubion of bhis kind is bo be found in Vienna, and a wriber in bhe " Queen " thusdescribes a visit:—" The establishment was complete in every particular, and consisted of a large general school-room and class-rooms for separate lessons, bathrooms, gymnasium, airy dormitories, spacious recreation grounds, and a large and commodious dining-hall. After some preliminary explanation bhe proprietor led me through the differenb schoolrooms, where bhe pupils were ab work, and I heard wibh regreb bhab my favourite dogs, the mastiff and bhe greyhound, were on bhe lowesb form; ib seems they have neither emulation nor ambition. The schoolmaster in passing cast a severe look on a quarrelsome group of pupils who were waiting bheir turn for rehearsal. We then passed on'to''the rboffi for. "beginners,' when he further explained his plan of education. The physical and moral faculties are cultivated .simultaneously, though in many cases the latter are necessarily much neglected. Each pupil spends a couple of months in the college, and after the term he passes an examination, at which he nearly always obtains his certificate of proficiency. The corporal exercises commence with bhe difficulb performance of walking on a rolling cask, and exbend bo bhe high art of dancing. For menbal exercise, especial abbenbion is given bo aribhmetic as the basis of all real science. While I was there an assistant teacher was just explaining to an attentive class the first rules of addition ; and many a hound would be vainly grinding over a simple figure, whilst a shrewd little pug put togebher wibh asbonishing quickness differenb bibs of paper on which were wribben bhe numbers his professor asked for."