Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-25
DO DOGS HAVE MIND?
Strange Stories of the Power of Magnet
ism Over Dumb Brutes.
From the London NeMsl

From the London News.l
Even Mr.. Jingle and Mr.. jesse never
thought of applying animal magnetism to
sporting dogs. But this is part CT "The
Scientific Education of Dogs" as practiced
and taught by "H. H." whose book is pub
lished by Messrs. Sampson & Low. IL have
held lot of dogs by the magnetic power
of will from doing wrong hundreds of yards
away from me, says 'H H." and he adds
that if he unbent his mind by making a
remark to friend the spell was broken.
1t cannot be the power of the human eye,
he thinks, that acts thus, for how can the
eye act at quarter of miles distance
He might shut his eyes and try if the mag
netic power still lasts. "To be first-rate
dog breaker a man must have lots of ami
NAL magnetism which, according to the
philosopher, is developed by face of will.
But what is will, or is it form of "mag-
netism%
Even in aog-breaking we reach at once
the debatable land of metaphysics and are
embarked on Schopenhauers speculations
before we know it. OF animal magnetism
exercised by the rider on the horse little
need be said. The man may influence the
beast by contact unconseiously, not by
twill force" 1t is different when al
H." turns distant dog from a particular
corner of a field by simply wishing" with
all his force. The whip aud the will had
better be kept separate, as much as may
be, and some dogs answer 10 the will which
merely sulk under the whip. The clever
est of al HIS dogs was retriever He
was fishing in her company, caught bis fly
on stump of the opposite bank, sent the
retriever across the water for it, and she
brought it safely. When a friends fy
caught in the bough of willow, some feet
above the water, the dog swan across,
climbed into the top Of the bush, jumped,
fastened on the bough as she fell, bit it
through and restored the tackle.
The dog was sent for a wounded NAL
lard, which was swimming below the ice.
She ran eight yards down stream, broke a
hole in the thin ice, and waited like cat
at a mouse hole. There she caught the
mallard as he came up to breathe. If this
was not reasoning, what is reason? But
some other power must have been ex-
ereised in the following case: al. H." left
his dog at the front door of house, with
himself left the house by the aid of a
laduer SET against nlSn WlnuOW III the
baek and walked away. The dog began to
be uneasy as soon as the master had thus
esca5ed, and was with him in five min
utes Could he have been guided by smell
or was he attracted by animal magnetism
If the human mind can really influence
that of dog from a distance, the force
which we cali mind must be common to
man and beast, and in that equal sky"
retfievers may keep 81. HIS company
The attention of Mr.. Romaines and of the
Psychlcal Society, as we'll as the study of
sportsmen, should be given to 'H. HIS"
book. His anecdote Of how the dog in
suited the cockney is excellent, but little
in the manner of Dean Swift. We are
only beginning to study the psychology of
animals, and yet it may be the proper
starting point of those investigations.