SMELL IN DOGS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8433, 5 August 1889, Page 4

SMELL IN DOGS.

. ' . Man's smelling. sense and the dog's do - not correspond; they are inverted, and ' what is delightful to one is disgusting to the other. ' ' A car's tail may be warmed - and pressed and bonnd ronnd with ligiii tares, and after twelre years of labor bestowed on it, wiU retain its original ■ form," i 9 an Oriental saying. In like . manner the dog may be shut up in an atmosphere of oppeponax and frangipane for twelve hundred years, and he will love the smell of carrion still. When the dog runs frisking and barking Iro expresses gladness, and he expresses a still . greater degree of gladness by madly roll- ?. »ng, feet up, on the grass, uttering a conf tiuaous purring growl. The discovery of • a carrion smelt «n the grass will always cause the dog to behave in 'this way. It is the something wanting still in the life of enforced separation from the odors that .delight him ; and when be unexpectedly , discovers a thing of this kind his joy is uncontrolled. His sense of smell is much keener than ours ; it is probably more to trim than sight is to us ; he lives in it, . and the odors that are agreeable to him Afford him the highest pleasure of which ho is capable. We can do much with a . .dog, but there is a limit to what wo can do ; we can no moro alter the character of his sense ot smell than we can alter the color of his blood.— Macmillan's Maga- , sine.