Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-11-24
DOG AND CAT LANGUAGE
Claims of Two Men Who I'M
derstand Their Speech.
eLossARIEs OF EACH PREPARED,

Chief Dog Catcher OF Chicago De-
clares CANNES Greatest of All Anil
mai Linguiats-Each Breed Has It's
Own Dialect-Is Preparing a Dog
Grammar-St. Panl Man Says He
Can Converse with Felines.
"All animals have their own IAN
auages," recently remarked Edward
poisa. the chief dog catcher for the
Chicago dog pound, says the Chicago
Tribune. 1T Is true, as Charles 81.
parcor of st. Paul says, that cats have
a language and / do not doubt that he
can understand them. | speak smat-
tering Of cat, but that language has
but little attractions for me. Dogs. as
a matter Of fact are the greatest I'M
guists in the animal world. Each breed
of dogs speaks a different language or
rather each breed speaks dialect Of
the dog language. Car IS similar to Tie
spitz dialect of The dog language.
From long association with dogs
that are brought here | have learned
the language and can converse intelh
gently with a dog of almost any breed
continued MIR. Boise. Il am afraid,
though, that the dog language l speak
is TO a great extent made up OF colo
ouialisms and slang, because the dogs
I meet here are mostly of the criminal
classes.
However, have met dogs belonging
,,,r 1DOa& 20 Y1iliQE onh | car
understand them. The dogs of the
street speak a 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.
II am at work now on dog gram
mara sort of Yolupek 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- ugh-ough-Don't try to take
this bone from me.
Yough-yough -yough-That boy threw
stones at me.
Yough. yough. yough. yoush. youth
shake the stuffing out of this rat
Oughou oughu-u-u-u, ough-u-u, ough-u-
That coon has climbed tree.
Bow, ough, bow. ough, bow ough-Get
out OF this lot.
Charles L. Parcor of 81. Paul Mimi,
an imitator Of animals, says human
beings can understand cat language.
Mr.. Parcor not only claimed to under
stand cat language, but to talk 1t. He
has studied the habits and utterances
OF cats for years. Here are some of
the cat words he has learned:
Aelio-Request for food
Aliloo-RequeSt for water
Lae-Desrs for milk.
Bi-Demand for red meat
Bleen-bl-kitty wants cooked meat.
Ptlee-bl-Wants house meat and is APP
piled to any food which kitty fOndles be-
fore devouring.
Meauw-Uttered simply. is greeting;
uttered fiercely and with the accent on
me" is an expression Of hatred and de-
fiance
Mieuow vow, WOW. yelwoyou. TOW,
observation-disclosures of battle and is
variously accented to tell of the progress
OF hostilities
Parriere-Request TO open door
Purrieu-The II love you" of catland;
. when uttered with rolling 'r' and a rise
on the last syllable is call from moth