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Show AARV GEHA -BONNER. i.i -. i CCrflUCMl IT VUU1N NlWm UNION THE CITY DOG "I'm a dog and I live In the city. I'm a nice dog, too, a good-sized Airedale chap. I -mm mm Some city dogs It Is Fun, Too." aren't treated well at all. Gracious, Gra-cious, It makes me mad when 1 see the way some of them are treated. "They're not even allowed the full length of their leashes, but they're held so close and made to walk just so. I'd like to see the people who hold those leashes do as they expect the dogs to do. "Some of them strike the dogs If they pull on their leashes at all. "They make the dogs cowed and wretched. Oh, how wrong, how dreadfully wrong it is. "The people who do such things should be made to spend all their lives that way, in little bits of apartments apart-ments and then taken out for little bits of walks and struck if they don't act well almost as though they weren't alive 1 "It makes my family angry, too, and they often speak to people they see treating their dogs in this fashion. " 'It is terrible,' they say to these people, 'that you can have a dog at your mercy like that. You should be at the mercy of someone who would treat you as you're treating that dog, and then you would know what that dog suffers and how miserable Is his life." "Oh, yes, my family speak to people who do not treat their animals well. Sometimes the people get very angry, but my family do not mind. "And sometimes the people are ashamed. And I'm glad when they are ashamed, for then I hope they will improve and see things in a different light. "J3ut I mustn't talk on this subject, for It makes me sad. "I started in to tell you something of my life and of what I see in the city. "Well, outside the second story win- would appear and the window Is closed so no harm can come to them. "And they perch on the boy's shoulders und on his head and on his fingers. They all seem to be such good friends. And sometimes I've seen the boy playing a musical instrument and I could tell by look- "I'm treated so well, and when my family can they take me out in the country so I can have long runs, and in the summer they go to the country. "If it were not for the fumily I wouldn't care so much for the city, for city life is hard on a dog. "Still, I am treated so well. dow we live on the second story or second floor, or whatever you want to call It there is quite a wide ledge. "There on the sunny days the family fam-ily put a pillow for me, and I put my head and front paws out of the window win-dow upon the pillow. "I cannot fall, and the greater "part of me is inside the room. But there I get the loveliest sunshine and I see all the excitements. The neighbors say they like to watch me. "I put my head down on my paws and I look up the street for awhile and then I look down the street. "I look in front of me and I look ubout me, just as I've seen people do who look out of windows, and it is fun, too. "I so enjoy the sights. Yes, a city dog does see plenty of sights. Sometimes Some-times a fire engine or two or three dash along. "Everything makes room for them I And I see dogs on the street and I see pigeons liylng nbout and walking, walk-ing, too, along the street right In the middle of the road. "They're very quick about always getting out of the way of anything that comes along. "Then I can see Into the house across the way. There Is a little blind boy In that house, and he has many pet canaries. "The canaries come out of the cage . on the sunny days In fact whenever thev want to. It SIS' lr.g that they were all having a "Such Good concert. Friends." "Sometimes 1 see children, and 1 can tell they arci standing on their tiptoes by the way they're taller then than at other times. I And they see extra things that way. ! "It seems a nice Idea to be able to , get on the tips of the toes and see ' extr;i sights. Tiptoes or the tips of j toes almost make up to children. 1 should think, tor not having four ' legs : "These are some of the thoiiL-hts of ' this city dog! I hope you will pass my way sometimes so that I may see j you. I so love to see children." |