Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-11-05
CATS AND DOGS.
The Enmfty That Exists between
| Them and the Reason of IL.

The Enmity That Exists Between
Them and the Reason OF IL.
Why does the dog hate the catf Sci
entists have been investigating the en-
nifty between these animals, and they
belieye that the instructive hatred
which certain beasts feel for each other
IA due to inheritance from ancient
times when the animals met In wild
state and preyed on each other.
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 dog
hates the cat because she La cat.
A cat will feed at place where a
dog has been without betraying any
signs of anger, but dog generally be-
comes excited and wild II he scents
the trail Of q cat anywhere near his
food or sleeping place.
Now this enmity Is not to be ex-
planned by anything that happens De-
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 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 nat
urslist DR.. Zell. seeks Ii In the TACT
that the common cat not only looks
like but smells like, the great cats OF
prey. And Of those cats OF prey there
ia one. much like domestic cat IN
many ways, which hunts dogs by pref
erence. This big cat is the leopard.
The domestic cat and her larger reia
tive, the wildcat, have never harmed
the race Of dogs. but their great spec
kled cousin is and always has been the
most ferocious Of dog murderers, anc
the cat must pay for II.
Authorities agree that there is nt
animal that the leopard would rathe'
eat than the dog AS result there are
many villages In the districts In whici
leopards are plentiful where nooool
can keep a dog The great cats VII
not hesitate to break into the houses
TO seize their favorite dish.
But SAYS the doubter, the moderl
dog certainly could not have know
leopards In many thousands OF years
He has been a domestic pet IN region
where there have been no leopard
since man first appeared
That is true, says DR.. Zell. But
points to the fact that dogs have
habit Of turning around several time
before they lie down. This. he says
dne TO the fact that when they wer
in a Wild state they had to do this I
nress down leaves and twigs In orde
' To prepare a bed for themselves, and O
they have not overcome this habit In a
their years Of domesticfty 1t Is quit
natural that they should still inner
fierce hatred Of any creature ths
smells like leopard.
> Dogs and cats are not the only an
mails that still show Inherited fear
; hatred of other beasts which they ha1
never seen themselves. Thus the IN
noceros Is frantically in fear OF an
thing white, and naturalists say th'
this is because once upon a time son
big white animal hunted him. But thi
must have been long ago, for there al
= no big white animals now where II
y, rhinoceros dwells.
Chickens that have never seen Il
will cackle and run in fear II thu
come across the place where the al
. NAL has passed or where his garcia
- has been dragged. If fox has be-
anywhere near cats drinking al!
= the cat will not approach it-New 70
= Press