DOGS AND SUICIDE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 18 May 1912, Page 12 (Supplement)

DOGS AND SUICIDE.

Until recently it was believed that animate never committed guicide. Mod-c-rn observations, however, disproved this. Some time ago it was stated that a certain man who was accompanied by his dog was run over at a level crossing by an express train. The animal waited until hds mas-tea- was ca.rnied home, and then vanished. Next day he was seen to approach the same crossing -and he down on the .rails. The cow-catcher of tho traun caught him and hurled him into a ditch 'near by, only slightly hurting him. The dog got up and (threw himself into a neighbouring stream, thus showing that he was aiot to be kept from his sad end.

Near Preston <a dog belonging to a, miner who was killed in nn explosion ret used to cat food for several days, and was later co-on to go to the head of the shaft where his master met his t.e-ath and leap into tho pit, beine instantly killed.

A dog in Sydney, New South Wales, which was found moaning by ia graveside, was taken home by someone that nr>/.icod it, bub the next day was found to have drowned itself in a cistern, having taicen its own life in consequence or its helpless grief.