Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-26
DOG AND CAT LANGUAGE
Claims of Two Men Who I'm
derstand Their Speech.
GLOSSARIES OF EACH PREPARED.

Chief Dog Catcher of Chicago De-
clares CANNES Greatest Of All AMI
NAL Linguists-Each Breed Has It's
Own Dialect-Is Preparing Dog
Grammar-St. Paul Man Says He
Can Converse With Felines.
Cali animals have their own Ian
guages," recently remarked Edward
Boise. the chief dog catcher for the
Chicago dog pound, says the Chicago
Tribune. 1t is true. as Charles Z.
Parcor of st. Paul says, that cats have
language. and do not doubt that he
can understand them. l speak IL smat-
tering of cat, but that language has
but little attractions for me. Dogs. as
matter of fact are the greatest lin
gusts in the animal world. Each breed
of dogs speaks different language or
rather each breed speaks dialect of
the dog language. Cat is similar to the
Spitz dialect of the dog language.
''From long association with dogs
that are brought here l have learned
the language and can converse intelli-
gently with Il dog Of almost any breed"
continued Mr.. Boise. Il am afraid.
though. that the dog language l speak
is to a great extent made up Of colo
quialisms and slang. because the dogs
| meet here are mostly of the criminal
classes.
However, have met dogs belonging
to some of our best families. and l can
understand them. The dogs of the
street speak lot of thieves slang,
which as yet l have failed to interpret
exactly. although many of their forms
of speech are ordinary dog. Perhaps
the most eloquent of all dogs is the
common terrier. He seems to be cos
mopolite. The language of the bulldog
is extremely imperfect but forceful.
The bulldog uses few words. but those
are vigorous
81 am at work now on dog gram
mara sort of Volupek dog language
using only the words common to all
classes Of dogs. l have not yet dared
attempt to classify all the dialects. but
have taken rat terrier as the basic Ian
guage. The following bow vows and
their equivalents in English Will suf-
flee to show some Of the commoner
forms of expression among dogs
The list of words supplied by Boise
contained the following:
Gr-r-r-r-r-r-What are you doing here?
Gru-ough- ough-ough-Don't try to take
this bone from me.
Yough-yough-y uugh-That boy threw
stones at me.
Yough. yough. yough. yough, YOU'LL
shake the stufiing out of this rat.
Oughou oughu-u-u-u, ough-u-u, ough-u-
That coon has climbed a tree.
Bow, ough, bow, ough, bow ough--Get
out of this lot
Charles L. parcor of st. Paul. Mimi.
an imtator Of animals, says human
beings can understand cat language.
Mr.. l'arcor not only claimed to under
stand cat language. but to talk it. He
has studied the habits and utterancos
Of cats for years. Here are some of
the cat words he has learned:
Aelio-Rcquest for food.
Aliloo-I>rIUeSt for water.
Iae-DeSire for milk.
Bi-Demand for red meat
Bieen- bl-kitty wants cooked meat.
Ptlee-Dl-N ants house meat and is APP
piled to any food which kitty fondles be-
fore devouring.
Meauw-Uttered simply, is a greeting;
uttered fercely and with the accent On
me" is an expression Of hatred and de-
fiance.
Mieuow VOW. WOW. yc,"oyou. TOW
observation-disclosures cf battle and is
variously accented 10 tel OF the progress
of hOstiiteS.
Parriere-RequeSt to open door
Purrieu-'The Il love you of catland
when uttered with rolling "r'' and a rise
on the last syllable is a call from a moth
err cat % its kittpn