SOME CLEVER DOGS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue XIII, 30 March 1895, Page 311

SOME CLEVER DOGS.

Whether dogs are the most intelligent animals or not, they seem to be more in sympathy with human beings than any others, and so to understand us better. Sme dogs, too, are almost human in their affections. Here is a story of a dog—a fox terrier—belonging to a plumber at Narrsgansett Pier. The plumber also had a horse twenty-seven years old,and horseanddog were greatcronies. Whentheold horse was harnessed to the cart the dog was on guard to see that nothing was stolen. In the pasture, the deg was always snifiitig around the horse, and was never so delighted as when the horse would begin to roll in the grass, which it often did, apparently to please the dog, which would jump about in every direction and bark for pure joy. At night when the horse was put in the barn the dog always entered with bis friend, and slept on the animal’s body. One day the neighbours heard the most dismal howls coming from the pasture, and found that the old horse had died. There was the terrier on the dead body, howling out its sorrow and misery. The dog remained with the body until it was removed for burial. In Norwich is a dog that hunts eels. Last winter this dog, which is a red Irish setter, appeared before his master two or three times with eels in his mouth. The master feared that the eels bad been stolen from some fisherman, and followed the dog to see how be got them. The animal led the way to the shore of a pond, nosed around in a mass of leaves at the edge, snapped at something and brought out an eel. His master poked about among the. leaves, and with a pitchfork was able to throw upon the shore 228 eels that bad gore into winter quarters among the leaves and dead water plants near the shore.