Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07
DOGS. HATRED or CATS.
Antipathy Which Scientists Say Date Back to Prehistoric Con-
 ditions.

Why does the dog hate the cat? Scien- lists have been Investigating the en- mity between these animals, and they believe that the instinctive hatred which certain beasts feel of each other is due to inheritance from ancient times, when the animals met in wild state and preyed on each other, says the St. Paul Globe.
 The enmity between cats and dogs seems. to be 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 doa hates the cat because 3hs is cat.
 A cat will feed at place where 5 dog has been without betraying an signs of anger; but dog generally be comes excited and wild if he seen <. the trail of a cat anywhere near hi food or sleeping place.
 Now this enmity is not to be ex plained by anything that happens be tween dogs and cats in domesticit. or anything that ever happened be tween them as long ago as human his tory goes In all these thousands O. years dogs and cats have been kert as pets. and of all animals they are the two which should be the mos friendly.
 But the reverse is the case. One naturalist, Dr. Zell, seeks it in the fact that the common cat not only looks like. but smells like, the great cats of prey. And of those cats of prey i fhAr0 id -n Jrxn in many ways, which hunts dogs by preference This big cat is theleopard. The domestic cat and her larger relative, the wild cat, have never harmed the race of dogs; but their great speckled cousin is, and always has been, the most ferocious of dog murderers, and the cat must pay for it. Authorities agree that there is no animal that the leopard would rather eat than the dog; as result, there are many villages in the districts in which leopards are plentiful where nobody can keep a dog. The great cats will not hesitate to break into the houses to seize their favorite dish.
 But, 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
 Thtat Is true, says Dr. Zell But he points to the fact that dogs have 8 habit of turning around several times before they lie down. This, he says is due to the fact that when they were in a wild state they had to do this to press down leaves and twigs in order to prepare bed for themselves; and as they have not overcome this habit in all these years of domesticity, it is quite natural that they should still inherit fierce hatred of any creature that smells like leopard.
 Dogs and cats are not the only ani- malls that still show inherited fear or hatred of other beasts, which they have never seen themselves. Thus the rhinoceros is frantically in fear oa anything white, and naturalists say that it was because once upon a time some big white animal hunted him. But that must have been long ago, for there are no big white animals now where the rhinoceros dwells.
 Chickens that have never seen fox will cackle and run in fear if they come across the place where the ani- nal has passed, or where his carcass has been dragged. If fox has been anywhere near cats drinking dish, the cat will not approach it.