DOGS AND WIRELESS.
A favourite spaniel's reactions to the service on Armistice Day interested a group of observers. A loudspeaker had just been installed ; and was set in action for the broadcast service. The dog took no notice whatever of the Guards' Band. It might have been silent for all the attention he paid. On the other hand he reacted at once to the bugle call, and stared at the loudspeaker with singular intentness. When the two-minutes' silence fell he walked straight to his basket, and with a queer long-drawn sigh curled up and remained quite still till the band resumed. As soon as the military orders began to be heard, he jumped up with a growl, and ran behind the loudspeaker, apparently to look for the authors of the noise. On another occasion he was tried with his master's voice heard over the same loudspeaker, but it has to be confessed that he showed no interest whatever. He neither approved nor resented. The subject is not without interest for dog owners who are many, and for biologists. Could not the B.B.C. collect a-number of fond dog-lovers at Savoy Hill and allow them successively to call their dogs by name?
• W. BeAcn THOMAS.
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