The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02
DOGS AND PERSONALITY
AN INTERESTING DISCOVERY
REGARDING CANINE PETS.
If You Are Heavy and Sad, Your Dog
Is Melancholy, If Lively, Your
Pet Is risky
(Kansas City star.)

Love me, love my dog is often a
difficult command to obey, but in many
cases the command can be changed
into Love me and you will love my
cog"
1 know bank president, fat and
pompous, who owns a little fox terrier
dog, which might be bank president
among dogs. The man has a heavy,
waddling gait, and the dog, partly on
account of rheumatism, walks exactly
like his master. The lively nature
which is supposed to belong to a dog of
this breed is utterly lacking in this
animal His acquaintance is only with
the blue blooded dogs who wear col
lars, and it is evident that his CONVEX
sation is all on the rise or fall of dog
stock, the stringency of the bone mar
ket and the probability Of plenty of
cats.
On the other hand, 1 have the ac-
quaintance of two little foX-terriers
who go to the other extremes They
are very nervous and seem to partake
of the nature of the mistress of the
house. When she goes for q. walk her
pace is very rapid, her steps short and
her sudden halts to look in a store win
dow or to speak to a friend give her
a harum-scarum appearance, shared
by the dogs. They chase around the
streets with little pattering steps, stop
suddenly, chase on again, get in every
ones way, and arrive home GREATNESS
and happy. The mistress is a woman
who jumps at every sudden noise and
the dogs jump with her. They also imi-
tate her in many little quarrels, which
are over as suddenly as they begin.
An old-fashioned man with an old
fashioned dog still further illustrates
this point The man is tall, rather
fieshy, and has long, thick hair and
full beard, cut in the old style. The dog
is large, rather clumsy, with shaggy
hair. a veritable picture of the old
school reading-book Bruno. The man
seems to know no other: neither does
the dog make the acquaintance of his
fellows 1t is evident that the life of
both is devoid of excitement and is
made up of routine of placid little
doings.
In contrast with this is the resem-
blance between a polished, courteous
man of the world and his little shining
spick and span poodle. They are both
small, dark, silky and graceful. The
master has fine. wavy locks, and the
dog a beautiful shining coat of hair.
They both move softly and easily about
the room and greet visitors with
ouiet courtesy When a stranger en-
tiers the little dog does not snuff at him,
but walks up quietly and invites pat.
These two, master and dog, are so
much alike in their personality that
sometimes 1 am in danger of pattfng
the master and shaking hands with the
dog.
A homely, yellow, tramp-dog attached
himself one day to an unattractive,
freckled, red-haired youth, and the two
are now boon companions. alike in APP
pearance and tastes. The boy laughs
loud and harshly at whatever 'amuses
him, and the dog follows with an irri-
Eating discordant bark. The dog is no
respecter of persons and ambles along
with a devil-may-car gait. The boy
is not awed by any parsonage, how
ever great, and slouches along the
streets until some mischief arouses his
attention. and together he and the dog
go into it. So the two have LACED
along through life, irreverent and care
less. but rather liked on the whole on
account of their imperturbable cheer
fitness.
A little girl who owns big st. Ber-
nard dog has so impaired her very
feminine personality to the animal that
the big fellow is becoming almost ri
steps, turning her toes out very square
ly. This is a hard gait fer the dog to
initiate, but he has done it with his
hind feet, at least, and minces along,
giving a little twist outward with his
hind feet. The little girl jumps up and
down with delight and the clumsy dog
the same light springs. She
is a child whose personality is not at
all strong, and whose voice is of the
fine, fussy sort, and the dog also lacks
that big, commanding presence which
belongs to a ST. Bernard. His bark is
not a deep bay but sharp and indie
cisive, and he is gradually becoming
fussy in all his movements
It would not be polite to say that the
master or the mistress partake of the
personality of the dog, and SO the dog
must be affected by the personality of
it's owner.