Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-23 | Page 6 | Dogs and Cats Get Used to War

Dogs and Cats Get Used to War. Bombardments affect different animals in peculiar ways. Dogs, as a rule, show great distress when shells burst near them and howl piteously. On the other hand, they have been known to dash along the front of a trench during infantry in-fantry fire, barking and apparently enjoying en-joying the noise. Cats do not care whether they are shelled, as long as they have a dry corner and food. There have been instances of lost dogs and cats venturing- into the trenches during dur-ing an engagement. Some of them lived in cottages near the firing Hue long since destroyed and clung to the remnants of their homes; others strayed a long distance. dis-tance. A nondescript dog, with an Ar-mentieres Ar-mentieres address on his collar, turned up near Wytschaete early one morning, spent the day with a territorial battalion, disappeared at dusk and was never seen again. A west county yeomanry contingent was adopted in tho thick of a fight by a black cat. which survived a bombardment that killed many men. and has since lived sumptuously in billets with an Identification Identifi-cation disc around its neck. Regimental mascots appear to have the best time, for they stay In billets, live on the fat of the land and are made much of by the local Inhabitants. The pampered pam-pered terrier of a certain famous regiment regi-ment of foot guards sits on the top of a transport wagon at the tail of the battalion bat-talion and barks at all the civilian dogs he passes. Portland Evening Telegram.