DOG AS BAROMETER.

Western Star, 5 December 1933, Page 4

DOG AS BAROMETER.

—<s> ' ALWAYS IN MASTER’S CAR Air Arthur Ratcliffe, AI.P., for Leek, Staffordshire, who often does 200 miles motoring before breakfast, , always enlists the aid of his dog and weather prophet, Rover, on his car journeys. Rover has accompanied his master hundreds of thousands of miles in' the past eleven years and has an instinct of knowing what the weather is going to be like. One day Air Ratcliffe set .off at 4 a.m. for Leicestershire with two passengers. , There was no sign of fog or bad weather as .they left Leek behind, but Rover, who always occupies the; front seat, looked dejected and kept peering keenly through the windscreen, making queer noises iii his throat.

When Rover does that it is a sure sign something untoward is in store, and sure enough the - party ran into a thick fog before they had been motoring ten -minutes. Air Ratcliffe says he would sooner have Rover to guide him than any barometer, 'and he would not start his jour-’ ney without his pet. He claims that he is the most travelled dog in Europe, and last year alone he covered 30,000 miles by road.