Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-13
ALL DOGS pErEsr WORK
Their Instinct Seems to Tell Them tn
Labor is DehaSiny

4 seems Ieli Them That
Labor is Debasing.
Every dog is either born gentleman
or confirmed loafer," said Long Island
sporting man, who keeps dozen or more
canine pets and studies their habits with
an interest that never flags. There is
not one of them who will work if he can
avoid 1t. The only difference between the
well-bred and genteel dog and the loafer
In this respect is shown in the manner in
which they support their idleness. The
dog whose birth and connections entitle
him to live without soiling his paws by
labor knows his social position very we'll.
and is not at all ashamed of the simless
LIE he leads. On the contrary, if. as occa-
sionally happens, he is forced to perform
some light task his whole nature is low
cred, and he goes about his uncopgenial
occupation in a half-hearted perfunctorv
way, and eyinces by his dropping ears and
depressed tail that he keenly feels his deg
radiation, and does not know what he had
done to deserve 1t. He considers that his
intelligent companionship, his unSwerving
tidellty, and his sleepleSs vigilance in pro-
tectlng his masters property when the
heavier senses of humanity are steeped in
slumber, should exempt him from vulgar
toll, and be accepted as sufficient return
for his board and lodging. As his owner
usually agrees with him, the dog is not
often asked to sacrifice what he regards rs
his birthright
The dog of loa6ng tendencies Yields
not whit to his aristocratic brother in his
detestation for toll, but he can not carry
OFT his idleneSS with the same air of easy
IndpnanHanna 10 Al.
owners expect him to work for his living.
and he moves about in the family circle
with an apologetic bearing; but there his
subservience ends. Try to train him to
the Zig hit but debasing treadmill employ
ment of turning the wheel that works the
mechanism by which the cream is made
into butter and you will be surprised to
find how soon he will learn to distinguish
churning day from the other six, and be
conspicuous by his absence while the dairy
maid is doing his work.
"A dogs adherence of labor. hard or
easy, can not be attributed to laziness. for
he is not at all lazy. All animated nature
shows no more active creature than he,
Arouse him from his sleep in the coolest
winter night, and call upon him to accom-
pany you on any mission, and he will be
delighted with the confidence you place
in him and shrink from no discomfort or
danger. 1t is clear to me that his hatred
for toll is due to his innate gentility, and
only when he is false to his natural in
stincts, and feels ashamed of his lifelong
idleness, does he look and act like loafer.
It is not easy to teach good dog tricks.
He will not take kindly to them, for they
are too much like work to accord with his
tastes. Ours sometimes make good trick
sters, but how often have you seen New
foundland or mastif stand upon his ear or
waltz on his hind legs.
Well-bred dogs are like Indians. They
are at all times ready and willing to hunt
until they drop, or fight until they die;
but the motto by which they seem to be
guided is, Death before Drudgery.'"
NelC York Sun,