| Show Thoroughbred Dogs Need to Work OU boys bos and girls are used to YOU thinking of f dogs as idle and use useless useless useless Y less unless imless they happen to be good watchdogs in which case you might consider them somewhat use useful usefUl useful ful at night In general however It is true that our dogs are mere pets And indeed we are probably all the fonder of them because they the are pets rather than beasts of burden Many people however are coming to think that if we would be really kind to dogs we wb would train them to work for us This is especially true of ot finely bred dogs which are growing more and more mord mor stupid and an l more and more delicate Dog fanciers tell us it would be a great blessing bl to if they could be regularly employed ed in som some kind kIn of work They would feel much better physically and the number of deaths would be tremendously de do decreased decreased creased Great Danes mastiffs mastins St Bernards and one ono or two other breeds could be made most useful for Instance to carry garden truck and milk to customers An English friend writes us usI usI usI I have relatives in Holland and I frequently pay visits to a town in the north part parr o of that country The house where I stay is next door to a n bakers This baker baIter has bas a dog which takes him round the town twice a week A drap draper er living about a stones throw further on has a dog which takes his travelers regularly r on long rounds from village to village and her he too has had bad the same dog for some years now But these records are as nothing to the two dogs who have h ve drawn him on alter alternate altern nato nate n te days from Assen to Winschoten a distance of ot some twenty tW nty to miles returning the same afternoon for forthe forthe the last seven or eight years or per perhaps perhaps perhaps haps more There are many who would not be able to follow their callings as milk venders or small market gardeners but for the help of their dogs The Dutch Societies for the tho Pre Pro Prevention Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have long since got over the idea that it itis itIs itIs is cruel to make such dogs work On the other hand they say tile the kindly treated working dogs are by far iia hap happier happier pier and healthier heal than the Idle dogs So they now get up working dog exhibitions bilious and give prizes to the owners whose dogs give evidence of the best treatment r |
