Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-07-23
TOM PLUMi'S LETTER.
THE DOG. !,

of dogs, and it matters but little what
kind Of dog fellow may have, 1T is
always q good dog, if you take the
owners word for it, for q sensible
person would not feed a worthless dog,
anu put up with his worthlessness,
fifty; two weeks every year, during the
lite OF dog.
Dogs are usually night providers,
but you may ask one hundred owners
OF dogs, or dog ii their dog visits
anu nine Ut them Will say no, and
they believe they are telling the truth.
for the dog was at huiae when he
went to bed. and was there when he
got up, and that seems reasonable proof
that his dog is not a night prowler.
but the majority OF dogs do visit of
nights their nearby comrades.
What is every body, business, 1t IS
SAID, no one attends to, ant the taxing
of dogs is verybodys' business There
should be a tax on dogs sufficiently
high to tax all worthless ones out of
existence, and the tax on bulldogs
should be high enough to put the
whole breed out of existence, for the
reason that lighting is all they are fit
for. If man of beligerant nature
is compelled to do his own fighting
instead of being allowed to keep a
beast to do it for him, his love of 1t is
apt to grow less instead OF greater.
There are few living things among
Gods work, endowed with the
capacity to determine correctly by
scent, the different things that dog
can ferret out. A dog can trail his
owner through the streets OF crowded
city. yet his master may wear pair
OF shoes made of the same kind of
leather that hundreds of other men
wear In the city. He also can trail his
owners horse, through the streets of a
city. and the streets may be paved
with stone. and the horse may wear
shoes made OF iron, he same as
hundreds of other horses may wear.
The hunter may have deer wounded,
and the blood may have ceased to drop
from the wound, yet his trailer can
follow this particular deer, although it
may follow in the same path dozen
others have passed along that same
day.
There are few people who do not
love dogs. II were going to get
married, one of tho essential pre-
reqisltes would be that the woman
should be lover Of dogs. mean she
would have to be a. lover of good
dogs.
A mans disposition may be learned
from his dog more accurately than
from member OF his family, provided
the man has owned the dog a sutfi-
Gent time for the dog to acquire his
disposition.
The majority of dogs are not
trained in the line that they are by
nature fitted for, and therefore, are
worthless. It is wrong to try to train
a dog along line that his breed does
not fit him for. It is wrong to try to
train dog unless you know how, and
few people know how, and some
who know how have not the required
patience or time If man undertakes
to train dog. and the dog knows
more than the man, the man will
fail.
Don't ever whip your dog unless
he needs 1t, and after you have
whipped him do not let him run
away from you but caress HIM and
he will love you.
It is very annoying to go along the
highways in the country and have
dogs chasing you at every farm
house. An easy and effective way to
break a dog of that habit is to load
shot gun with fine shot and watch
your dog and when he starts for the
road tell him to stop, and If he fails
to do it give it to him. It catches
him in the act and the second dose
will not be necessary If a good job Is
done at first. Once when old Dave
Muckelroy was painting the cornice Of
his house, while standing on ladder
he looked over on the hillside and