Dog Demonstrates The “Nash” Trick
• ! | Special to "Northern Advocate.”] | i KAEO, This Day. 1 T Many are the methods adopted i f to obtain money, but a dog at | | Whangaroa lias all human t | efforts, or at least a number of I f them, beaten. ? f A retriever owned by Mr J. I | Park, will perform a large assort- 1 | irent 0 f tricks, but his speciality f f is the money trick, or more I I! rightly the “Nash” trick. f ” His owner places a threepenny t ; P* ece under the linoleum in the I centre of a room, and the dog I | lifts the edge of the linoleum t with h’s nose and crawls under to j pick the coin up with his lips, 1 Another clever trick done by T the deg is to dive into the water ? at the Whangaroa wharf and re- I cover an article after It has sub- { merged. I
This trick, however, is not so popular as the former, and the deg is frequently required to do the “Nash” trick in the hope that it will retrieve more than the coin hidden for the purpose.
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Northern Advocate, 21 April 1939, Page 5
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