"DOG CALF"
BOUGHT FOR SHOWING EXHIBITION AT CENTENNIAL The extraordinary freak ''dog calf born last week on a property near Te Aroha, has been purchased by Mr A. W. Sands, of Rotorua. and will shortly be exhibited in the town before being taken to the Centennial Exhibition. Mr Sands proposes lo donate the first £5 collected from the Rotorua exhibition to the Crippled Children's Fund i and the first £50 collected from the Centennial Exhibition to the same cause. The calf is r.t present being cared for by a farmer, and despite its extraordinary appearance and abnormalities, is thriving, well. Photographs shown by Mr Sands demonstrated that the description given of the freak animal is no exaggeration. Its head bears all the appearance of that of a bull-dog, while it has a number of other pronounced canine characteristics. The front legs are double jointed, but the coat is that of a young Jersey calf. The eyes are large and round like those of a dog, and the ears also canine in shape. The creature, Mr Sands states, al. readv responds to a whistle as a dog would do.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 51, 18 August 1939, Page 5
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