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Show I' Anent Dogs And Digs! Your New Flower Garden Annual Fend Time Nigh Ii "That dog is a perfect pest!" ( How many times have you said it?' I How many times have you .heard it ) said? Or, if you are of the sterner sex: ! ! that dog! ! !" when your 50-pound collie gambols joyfully across your freshly planted garden, j spoiling several hours of prideful woi;k. This is a brief for Collie, a brief for! you. and especially for the family next door. There are reasons for the attitude atti-tude of all three of you and its only fair that they be recognized. i Even real dog lovers object to hav-i ' ins their spring flower beds dug up by j canine excavatore, and are prone to, wonder in language more or lefts strong, why that blamed pup Insists on digging right there. But, of course ' Mi'. Pup, being very far from a fool haven't you recounted the story of his clever, almost human tricks, time and again? digs where the earth is al-j ready broken because it Is easier on I his digging apparatus. If you were he,.1 wouldn't you? 1 It's your racial instinct to dig in Spring. It's his nature to dog any-' lime. The incipieucy of growing things j gets into your soul; you grub happily, j away, ruining several pair of perfectly i good trousers or all the winter's care-' ful manicuring of your finger nails. Nevertheless you dig, because it's im your blood to plant seeds in spring.' And so your dog digs, because it's in 'his blood to plant bones. It all gets back to a question of sustenance, so why blame him or your neighbor, who also digs? Your neighbor is only a differently bound edition of you. He digs and i plants a garden for the same primal reason you do. He objects to having the results of his labors destroyed just las you. In fact he will resent such de-vastatiton de-vastatiton oven more than you. It Is Jcno of the well-known kinks of human j nature to have more patience with the ! i misdeeds of your own family, whethci the miscreant be the dog member, or j otherwise, than with the family noxt door. Uncharitable fact, but you know how it is with you! It is a matter of unrecorded nonetheless none-theless pertinent neighborhood history his-tory that in the gladsome springtide many a feud has been started that has lasted throughout tho year or longer, I maybe over the digging proclivities; I of an otherwise well-loved neighborhood neighbor-hood institution somebody's pet dog. i So taking into conslderaltlon those little peculiarities of both dog and man psychology it is herewith suggested that Collie's master see that his digging dig-ging operations be confined to other areas than freshly-made gardens. For we have learned that even after the row is over, articles of peace are the most difficult things in the world for all hands to subscribe to and sign. |