SMILING Doo Some dogs have a powerfully developed sense of
smell which is said to compensate them for indifferent sight. Cocker spaniels hunt by scent and sometimes ignore the evidence before their eyes, as I have noticed on several occasions. Other breeds may rely more on vision and less on scent, and I could have been mis- taken in the case of the smiling dog which I met the other day. I saw it at a distance of about seventy or eighty yards. It was screened from me by a fairly low hedge and may have seen me first although it appeared to have picked up my scent long before it saw me. If this was the case, it associated the scent I carried with something pleasant, for it deviated from its course and came towards me looking delighted. It finally broke through the hedge and came to me with the nearest thing to a smile on its face that a dog is capable of showing. I patted its head, it sniffed my. Palm, wagged its tail and went back through the hedge in the direction from which it had come. Telepathy may have been the answer, of course. had been thinking what a nice-looking dog it was.
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