Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-04
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the dog was lonely, and sighed for COM
panionship, and man was made especially
TO please him, as no other animal was
capable of understanding him."
You seem to have an abundance oi
black-and-tans?"
"Yes," he said, ats popular sort, and
always will be. The dog is neat, plucEy
and handy, and very clever and affection
ate. That one lying down and following
you with his eye, like little fireball, be-
longs to George III. Primrose, the minstrel,
who has just decided to part company with
his old associates, Thatcher and West. I
used to have dogs belonging to Charley
Backus and Billy Birch to board. Backus
is dead and gone, poor fellow. have
several dogs, very fine ones, too, belonging
to Mrs. Fargo, the wife of the millionaire
expressman. She is another lady who
knows great deal about the animals. and
her dogs fairly spring at her with delight
when she has them taken home. For four
months Eve had comedian J. X. En-
NETS big st. Bernard, Jura, here. He's a
splendid fellow, l tell you, and worth a
small fortune. Professor Parker's troupe
of acting poodles were here till lately.
"By-the-by, do you know that the poodle
is the quickest of all CANNES to learn
tricks? He is born mimic and is the
monkey OF the dog world There is hardly
anything he can't be taught except to
speak. Other dogs may be cleser in spots,
but the poodle beats them all on general
excellence. They can be taught to act out
a piece just like human"
A visit to the 'hospital," an apartment
on the ground floor of the same building,
was next made. There were six patients
in various stages of convalescence. One
gamey little bull terrier had its broken
left leg in splints, and was hopping about
on three legs quite cheerfully. The others
were suffering from overindulgence in rich
food received at the hands of their owners
"There are no serious cases Just now,"
said Mr.. Dovey, who acts as physician and
surgeon, as well as hotel-keeper, ''but we
frequently have pets here who look very
blue indeed. The other day l was sum
moned hastily to house on Lexington
avenue, where / found the whole family
in high state of excitement over a favor
lite setter, which they believed was hydro
phobic. He was certainly very sick
dog; but the hydrophobia disappeared in
stantly after | extracted four-inch bone
from the esophagus, where it had been
stack for several hours.
LET me say, too," he added, emphatic
ally, "that in thirty-eight years expert
ence l have never come across a real case
of hydrophobia. The illness was always
traceable TO some such cause as overfeed-
ing, injury or excitement occasioned by
abuse of the animal. / have dogs now sent
to me from owners in dozen different
States. but none ever had hydrophobia."
The bill of fare at the pet dogs hotel
is not one that would meet the expecta-
tions of apampered taste, being excessively
plain.
"If dog owners will follow these rules"
said Mr.. Dovey, 'they will have healthy
pets, with the brightest OF eyes and the
glossiest of skins. In the summer | feed
them no meat whatever. Bread and milk,
rice and milk; meal, mush or hominy are
cooked thoroughly and fed twice every
twenty-four hours. They get nothing be-
tween meals except water This, with
frequent bathing and exercise morn
ing and evening, is all that is
needed. | am prepared to give $500
to anyone who will bring me a
genuine case of hydrophobia," said the
hotel-keeper in conclusion. 'Just let 'em
send it right here, to No 26 West Fourth
street, and the money will be paid if it be
true hydrophobia." And ne smiled know
ingly as he left the dog hospital, closing
the door softly behind him.
There are no other dog hotels, but there
are several other dog doctors and surgeons
in New York, who enjoy quite lucrative
business in treating pets of the rich. The
leading man in the profession is III. Clay
Glover, who makes specially of treating
sporting and hunting dogs, and who, be-
sides his surgery" at 1898 Broad way, has
a farm where he sends canine patients
during conva!escence. On the days after
holidays he has always rush of patients,
the dogs, like their masters and mistresses,
having apparently suffered from the fes-
tivities
On Fifty-seyenth street, near Seventh
avenue, a dusky dog surgeon has bis head
quarters, and it is highly amusing to listen
to the plaintiye appeals of the colored
bellies Of the West Side who bring him
their poodles and black-and-tans for treat
ment. He has a monopoly of the negro
trade iii this respect Yesterday pair of
coifee-colored ladies waited on him One
held dog in her arms, which seemed to
be cross between poodle and a blood.
hound.
u want you to glib him kink in his
tail" she explained. "He's got to 'soshi-
attn wild no-good dogs in our street, and eff
he had kink he might seek bettah' com
pany"
A "kink" was duly furnished by pc
culiar surgical operation known to sport
ing men, and with the ours tail swathed
in hoop-like bandage, the pair departed
quite delighted, after paving 81 to the
woolly-headed dog surgeon.