Show lj lailor ilor in iso benm in this country the dog is really in nine cases out of ten the master of the man in belgium however his status is very different one of alie first things impress alie stranger in brussels is the immense number of dogs employed in drawing barrows and small carts about the streets in the capital alone over ten thousand dogs are ao engaged and the number of draught dogs in alie whole country is probably not less than fifty thousand generations of servitude have made the belgian dog a race apart for ilia size he is said to possess the greatest pulling power of any animal four times his own weight being considered a load well within his powers taking his average weight as half a hundred weight this means that something like five thousand tons are daily dragged about by canine labor in belgium |