NOTES BY TERROR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 51

NOTES BY TERROR.

— An instance of a dog's intelligence comes to hand f rom Waikawau (reports the Auckland Herald). The incident occurred at the residence of Mr W. O. Jamieson, which is known as the halfway house between the Thames and Coromandel. Mr Jamieson states that he had ieturncd from a ball, and, tired out, lay down to read and went to sleep. The window of his room was left partly open. He was roused from slumber by his dog, Jumbo, a fine collie, which was scratching and tearing the window blind from the outside, and, in eloquent dog "language, calling his attention to the fact that something imusual was going on. He at once got up and looked around, and on entering the kitchen found it in full blase. Buckets and a creek being handy, the fire was soon (suppressed. Mr E. A. Daldy, who passed soon after, states that if the dog had not awakened his master when he did, the house, and probably Mr Jamieson, woulc^ have been burned. — There are 63 specialist dog clubs and societies represented on the Council of the English Kennel Club. — Three beagles have preceded the Gover-nor-general of Axistralia, Lord Hopetoun, having reached Sydney on November 8. Presuming that those in high places pet the fashion in dogs, as in other things. I suppose it will be safe to predict that beagles will be the rage for a time in the sister colonies. —Mr G. C. St. George, Htnvera, asks secretaries of sheep dog trial clubs to send him copies of rules and regulations!, to be laid before a meeting to be held in Hawera shortly with the object of forming a club there. — In the treatment of a sick dog remember' you are dealing with o highly sensitive and nervous patient. Be very gentle, pays Boston Cultivator, in answei to a correspondent ; avoid roughness or anything likely to alarm him. In giving him any liquid medicine do not open his mouth, but, placing him between you knees, with his face looking in the same direction as your own, gently raise his jaw and, pulling- his lips away from hi* teeth on OXK. side of his mouth to form a cvp or firar>fl, very slowly pour from bottle or spoon the quantity he is to ha\e into it. Keep his? head raised foi a minute or tv o, and if he does not swallow the doso insert n ppoon between his front teeth. This will Lpvo th? effect of drawing, off his attention from the medicine, and he will usually svi allow at oroc. If the dose is a pill, bclu*. or anything 'olid, hold his head the panic way a= beiore-i;ic;i-tioiiecl, but with the left hand under lower ,ia\v press firmly on car 1 ! firlo xsiV.i t:nr,ib oiid finder at the junction of upper and lower ■jaiw 1 . Thi- 1 -.rill usvallj ci'lg hini to op:-> hi- mouth, when th" do o ! c p'lL i.Ho the snout !i as far back i\ r : pcrf.bl'-' over Iro tongac (or ho will f.pii ;l om) a v\ cV.sc U c jaw? sjnicwhal b'xarvilr. a v -'.i ii V:\o,. cr.sci; i.Le

deed is done. If any trouble arises with the action of his front paws this may be got over by wrapping him round with a shawl or coarse apron. When once you have got into the way of it, you will be surprised how simple it is. lam quite sure a practised OAvner or kennelsman would dose a dozen dogs while a novice was making a bungle over one. —An article in the Melbourne Leader recently upon the reasoning power of animals, a Goulburn Valley correspondent writes, has started the tellers "of dog stories upon the job. The palm so far remains with the local doctor, who says: — "I have a dog, and he has convinced me that animals have the reasoning faculty. In* my house the supper is always cold on Sunday evening, and we take it early, immediately after our return from church. Everything is put on the table before we start from home, in order that all may attend the evening service. One Sunday there was no one left at home but the dog. There was a cold meat pie on the supper table, out of which one piece had been cut. When we sat down to supper that evening, the first thing I took out of that pie was a eponge. The dog had got on the table, pulled out the meat, found tha,t the gap would betray him, and had gone into the hall, bitten off the sponge hanging to the slate kept for callers, jumped on the table with it and rammed it into the pie with his nosd." The correspondent who sends this asks whether any reader of the Leader feels confident to compete against the doctor. — Some dogs perform wonderful things, but, according to the, Waimate Times, a pettier at Waitaki has a ''faithful dog Tray,"' who makes himself very useful and saves his master'many a .ong journey. It is his (the dog's) custom to go to the railway line every evening and meet the train from Oamaru to Tinwu, returning home with his master' « ".,.-,.,,.. T| 1a "tyke" is becoming such an adept that he has been seen on several occasions to catch the paper as it has been thrown off.