Show ore for doer ep owners by albert ift payson lyson terhune WHY YOUR DOG DOES STRANGE THINGS H ji L I 1 r r kill r V the dog turned carefully around twice before lying down LD MAN NEGLEY bad brought J hs his ale iderle compact little MOO 1 P bermann rin kinscher cr dog along with him h in to N ine street that day for bip in bis his tiresome round at lawn lawa mowing wowing at von the old man his lawT mover under a tree in the vree handa epa apa cloua clous back bk r rd and sit sat down bealie it to sample simple the contents of bs his dinner pall abe crasa crass had iliad been left to crow grow long one in this part of the grounds A butle little later it was to be cut for bay at present it was wavy and tarred starred with daisies the two mo vreeland boys and ft a chool school ot 0 theirs sauntered past toward the house and stopped to say any hello to the old man they did so the bermann Do pin j eface efa cc decided to imitate his ran masters sterN ow by coming to rest in the tall barass the doe dog turned carefully taro ind twice before lying tying down t C why by lie old that said phil hill vreeland ecland Vr awby he lie turned around I 1 mean beford be he lay down re seen lota lou ff us ggs da do it it we only alj yea yes agreed old han egley its illy just as silly ak a for you and me dream were falling oft off some hah and wae wale up with a start but once it illy silly for folks to dream that our ua a illion year ago ka slept in high trees or on high rock leates to leep out of the way of 0 wild emsis the fellow who fell down frona that height in his sleep steep was due to get a broken neck or be eaten by those same wild beasts that was thir worst terror for thousands of years yeam why ne ue leep on dreaming it so a pin pio told me once well my dog turns around for a something like that for of years his ancestors asea to deep sleep in the high grass at the grass sterna stems were stiff abe M ground waa was likely to have snakes or lons on it by turning around the LM dogs brushed the stiff grass into a bess and aw they scared away the snakes wr the scorpions that might have tang them 13 bogs ggs today get that trick from their eV estors some of them turn around like that even if its only a going to lie down dori OIL u ui Us what the science sharps call a it may be silly now dow bak once we it waa was a lifesaver life saver sater are a lot of things our dogs do their ancestors did those cam can bittings lor for so iong for in istance wild doss dogs and twe tb r wolf brothers wre were about the only animals that ever bce bunted in packs they would t f guilt will down a deer or a buffalo or some other prey and then the whole cacir would fall upon it und eat it they half halt seamed often there enough to go so the dog with dainty table didn t live long enough to bave aay descendants lie ile died of n e stron gt do was the dog that wild bolt his food incest fastest and in that vany va ny ay let the biggest share 0 it he tie wax lie dog that left his traits lo 10 hb hi his traits of gulping down his food in big mouthfuls with out half halt cli chewing ewing it amont among other ablis 4 why by dogs today bolt their f r lood and with less chewing than ismy other animal docs does A cat cats A dog gobbler gobble q that la Is why ft in twice ni ab easy to in poison a dog as JC it aa to poison a cat the cat ex mailee first the do dog inherits he the 1 baitt 0 of bolting his dinner without Atop topping pir to figure out what ts Is in it mature nature lias has helped out opt this trait of I 1 1 ls by giving him gastric juices chrt almost anything except poil I 1 try that hint ret gets into his stol baeli if mr yea a Q oi I 1 hould should ent the he thing a pl dog ete and eat them as fast and wit ened be cl deada nother thin abo about u t t the lie t ry JL i hunting packs of wild dogs when a dog starts to bay the moon at night youve noticed how one dog otter after an other for or miles around takes up the sound and passes it on it isn lent t like that with any other anal for in la alance if one cow kovs DO ill the cow cows la in town dont begin to raw mo in the old times the leader of the pack would bay ot at night to call the rest of the he doga dogs together for the bunt hunt wolves and wild dogs still do that avery wild dog that heard the call mould obey it and hed do more ile d send along the call to any other dogs that might be he in dear lear wa distance dix tanco of hiro him and pass it U on in the same way its the ancestor memory of the hunting call that makes our own dogs tark bark or howl bo 0 at night when they hear a dog do it and a mighty unpleasant throw ncr ac i it lt is when folks are sleepy old man ilan negley had bad tossed a mutton bone to his Do Dober bemann roann amse pinscher her when he sat down doan the pin pinscher had nt finished gowing all the went off oft it it getting to hi his feet and trotting over to a flowerbed flower bed he proceeded to bury the bone in the soft earth shoving the dirt back into place above it with hia his black nase theres one more throw throwback bock commented the old man nodding toward the busy canine when the wild dogs pulled down some pney that was too big for thein to eat all ot at once they anew the tile next do dog or pack of dog dots that happened to get the scent would elul th the carcass so the dog that had had enough to eat would bury the rest of mis bones he lie would cone cote back later to dig them up and eat them when he was as hungry again that wag was good common sense and I 1 dont doubt it often saved him from famine when game was as scarce tied hed just return to the place where hed burled buried his dinner and hed eat it to this day dogs do the same thing that Do bermann of mine knows he likely to come here again he tie knows lies he a never in his hie ille been let go hungry but by old time instinct be hes a burying that bone because a trillion of his ancestors did it aud std they made it a part of hi his nature to bury bones he cant eat est your dad was ashing asking me how to stop his collie from running out after cars cam that a another throwback tb wild dogs lai in the bushes or long grass crass deer or beep or rabbits would scurry past if the dog wanted a dinner be he bad had to se eve chase the first instant be he saw the flash of anything rushing past post him it was his nature to give chase to anything that ran by bow he kept nike it wn ha bs sport and his way of making a alsing it got to be an instinct in the brains of modem dogs especially long haired dogs because they are nearest to the wolf olf and the wild dog that instinct Is still doing bust ness and a pesky nuisance it Is A car goes whizzing past and instinct makes the ilog clog chase it it some time i I 1 wonder what they think do with the car if they caught it yes theres a reason for every thing your dog does cven if that reason Is sometimes a million years old copyright by the loo |