TWO FACTS ABOUT OUR GOOD FRIEND THE DOG

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 30 November 1940, Page 10

TWO FACTS ABOUT OUR GOOD FRIEND THE DOG

To-day there are not only trained dogs to lead people safely through city traffic, but also canine companions for ihe deaf and dumb. Airedales are trained to make special signals when the doorbell rings or hooters blow. When the telephone rings they remove the receiver and answer the call by a soft bark. Edmund Lowe, the film star, has a 12-year-old blind dog called “Cocktail.” and another specially trained dog to lead him. Every day the “leader” takes “Cocktail” for a walk in Hollywood, holding his blind charge’s lead in his mouth, and piloting him carefully through the traffic. A dog was knighted in 1837 for gallantry in the Spanish campaign. “Dash,” pet of Captain Bury, was always foremost on the field of battle, at the head of a battalion of Royal Marines: He was twice wouuded, and in spite of a flesh wound, he led the attack at Ametzagana. After the battle, the marines knighted him with a drummer’s sword, and bestowed upon him a medal made from a Spanish bullet. “Sir Dash” returned with the battalion to England.