Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-11-09
CATS AND DOGS.
The Enmity That Exists between
Them and the Reason OF IT.


Why does the dog hate the cat? Sci
entists have been investigating the en-
nifty between these animals, and they
believe that the instructive hatred
which certain beasts feel for each other
Is due TO inheritance from ancient
times when the animals met I'm q Wild
state and preyed on each other.
The enmity between cats and dogs
seems 10 be due more 20 hatred on the
part or 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 a cat.
A cat Will feed at a place where n
dog has been without betraying any
signs OF anger, but a dog generally be
comes excited and Wild n he scents
the trail OF a cat anywhere near his
food or sleeping place
Now this enmity is not 10 Toe ex-
planned by anything that happens be
tween dogs and cats I'm domesticity or
anything that ever happened between
them as long ago rs human history
goes. In ali these thousands Of years
dogs and cats have been kept as pets.
and OF all animals they are the two
which should be the most friendly.
But the reverse is the case one mt
uralist DR.. Zell seeks II I'm the fact
that the common cat not only looks
like, but smells izc. the great cats %
prey. And Of those cats OF prey -fere
is one much like a domestic car I'm
many ways. which hunts dogs by pref
erence. This big cat IS the leopard.
The domestic CIT and Ter larger rcIa-
tive. the wildcat. have never harmed
the race OF dogs. but their great spec
killed. cousin Is AMI always has been the
most ferocious Of dog murdcrers. ANA
the cat must pay for it
Authorities agree that There iS no
animal that the leopard would rather
eat than the dog. As q result there are
many villages I'm the districts in which
leopardS are plentiful where nobody
can keep "a dog. The great cars will
not hesitate 20 break into the houses
TO seize their favorite dish
But. says the doubter. the modern
dog certainly could not have known
leopards I'm many thousands Of years.
he has been a domestic pet iu regions
where there have been mo- lcoparls
since man first appeared
That is true. says Dr. Zeu But he
points % the fact that DOGS have a
habit Of turning around several times
before they lie down. This. le SAYS. is
due % the fact that when they were
IN wild state they had 20 DO tlfs 20
press down leaves and twic, in order
20 prepare a bed for theraselvc-. and as
they have not overcome this halit iu aI
their years Of domostc.ty 10 is quito
natural that they should stu inherit
fierce hatred Of any creature that
smells like "a leopard
Dogs ami cats are DO tLe only ari-
mails that Sun show Inherited fear u-
hatred OF other beasts which they have
never seen themselves Thus tle rl.-
uoccroS is franticaIly .n fear oc ans.
thing white. and uaurauStS say tr.t
this is because once upon tmc sluc
big white animal hunted lfm but that
must have been long ago. f1r There are
no big white animals now where tlp
+ rhinoceros dwelIs.
Chickens that have never seen a faN
I viii cackle and run IN fear 10 tley
/ come across tie place vLe-c tlc .rl
/ NAL has passed or where his carcass
has been dragged. II a foN has beer
anywhere near Il cats drlnkiuc G--l
the cat will not approach it.-Ncw y or.
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