The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1904-12-02
CATS AND DOGS.
The E:Dmity That Exists Between
Them and the Reason of IL.

The E:nmity That Exists Between
Them and the Reason of IL.
Why does The dog hate the cat: Sci
pntistS have been investigating the ell
nifty between these animals, and they
believe that the Instructive hatred
which certain beasts feel for each other
il due To inheritance from ancient
times when the animals met in Il wild
stat, and preyed on each other.
The cnmity between cats and dogs
seems TO he due more to hatred on the
part of the dog than of the cat. The
latter animal apparently hates dogs
because dogs chase her. while the dog
hates the cat because she is 4 cat.
4 cat will feed at il place where Il
dog has been without betraying any
signs of anger but dog generally be-
comes excited and wild if he scents
the trail Of cat anywhere near his
food or sleeping place.
Now this cnmity is not to be en-
planned by anything that happens be-
tween dogs and cats in domesticity or
anything that ever happened between
them aS long ago as human history
goes. In all these thousands of years
dogs and cats have heen kept us pets,
and of al animals they are the two
which should he the most friendl.'.
But the reverse is the case. o. nat
uralist Dr. Zcll. seeks it in the fact
that the common cat not only looks
like. hut smells like. the great eats OF
prey And Of those eats of prey there
* one much like Il domestic cat in
many ways. which hunts dogs by pref
crt.Isrc This biz: cat'is the leopard.
Ttlr domestic cat and her larger rela-
tive the wildcat. have never harmed
the race 81 dogs. but their great pee
Killed. cousin is and always has been the
most fcr0rinuS of dog mrr1e'"rS. and
the est muSt pay for it.
Authorities agree that there is no
animal that the leopard would rather
eat Than the doc. AS :; result there are
many villages in the districts in which
lcopartS are plcntifu; where nobody
can keep dog. The great cats will
not hesitate Ia break into the houses
tn seize their favoritc dish.
Eut. says the doubter. the modern
dog certainly could not have known
leopards in many thousands of years.
He has been domestic pet in regions
where there have been no .leopardS
since man first appeared.
That is true. says DR.. Zell. But he
points 10 tn" fact that dogs have
habit nj turning Hrarr@ several times
before they lie down. This. he says, is
q, fl,n l,t VII
in a wild state they had 10 do this TO
press down leaves and twigS in order
to prepare i bed for themselves. and as
they have not overcome this habit in all
their years of lnmestirity it is quite
natural that they should still inherit
fierce hatred "f amy creature that
smells like Il leopard.
Dogs and eats are not the ,"'''y ami
mails that still SHOW iuherited fear or
hatred of other beasts which they have
never seen themselves. Thus The rh-
nocernS * frantirally in fear of any
thing white. and naturaliStS say that
this is because once upon Il time some
big white animal hunted him. But that
must have been long ago. for there are
no big white animals now where the
rhinoreros dwells.
Chickens that have never seen fox
will cackle and run in fear if they
come across the place where the ami
NAL has passed or where his carcass
has been dragged. II fox has been
anywhere Near Il cats drinking dish
the cat will not approach it-New York
Press.