CANINE SAGACITY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 9

CANINE SAGACITY

fie police dog of Switzerland is pot so well known as his more famous contemporaries in Germany, and England. But that he can be a very efficient animal that can be of great assistance to the police was proved by the. exhibition which he gave of his prowess in a competition at , Lausanne the other day. The skillful way in which ho pursued his quarry and brought him to the, ground ,and stood guard over him. until' the policeman arrived to arrest the runaway from justice was an'admirable example of what can be done; ip ,the training of these dogs. And perhaps more agreeable, but less exciting from the spectacular point of view, was tho work of the ehien sanitaire, which will go out at night to discover a man who is missing from his village. He rescmbles the dog of the St. Bernard, who traces the traveller who has fallen into a show drift or down a ravine. The most famous of . the Swiss police dogs is known by the name “of “ Wiggor,” and when he appeared in the stadium where the competitions ,wcro held,, with his master, the gendarme Parlier, ho received a groat ovatidh from the public, which appeared to please him almost as much as the gendarme. But the champion jumper , and clearer of obstacles is “Lupin,'? vyho appeared to understand all the intricate orders that were givcn to him. No harshness or violence is. used in the training of the dogs, who; are extraordinary intelligent. , It is all done by kindness. But'it requires a; great •deal of patience and time to Blakean efficient police dog.