A Dog's Affection
A strange example of the mentality of dogs has been seen in my locality. An Alsatian living in one part of the parish made friends with a mongrel in another part. While they were together in the centre of the village the mongrel was killed by a car and buried at once. Later, after returning to its home about a mile away, the Alsatian went back to the scene of the tragedy, and then dug up the buried body which it was loth to leave. A less sentimental tale of a dog belongs to the same neighbourhood. A favourite retriever went stone blind, but still delighted to take a standard walk with its master. Close to the outset there had been a fence which the dog used to jump. This was removed, but the blind dog continued to spring over the vanished barrier at the precise spot where it once had been. How dogs delight to jump a fence! One of the finest retrievers I ever knew spiked itself so badly in jumping railings in Hyde Park that it might have died if its master had not been a surgeon. On the first walk taken after is recovery it could not be restrained from ill:ming the same railing ; but it took care to clear it l
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