Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1938-05-05
DOGGIE DOINGS
CORRECTION
By NJ. G. DENLINGER

A thousand dogs at Packard Hall,
/ Each sitting in his little stall,
With wagging tails and pricking ears,
Or else with thoughts to deep for
tears,
For every dog is not so keen,
In such a hubbub to be seen,
Tho some delight to bark and bite,
The others think it not quite right,
l seldom go to such show,
To see those puppies, row on row,
For fear some lady in the hall,
Will think I've wandered from my
STALL
For fear some dame will stroke my
hair,
And hug me with "You little dear"
or offer me-
Oh, such treat: some biscuits hard
as nuts to eat.
In this column on April %, prom
ised to report the Dog Show held by
THE National Capitol Club in the Pack
lard Building last Saturday, April 80.
The writer attended the show and
found it much below the standard of
last year which was held on the spac-
ious grounds of the Meadowbrook
Riding and Hunting Club and in pre-
ivious years in the auditorium.
The quality of the dogs entered was
fair, some classes such as elbows
were smaller than usual but one could
not derive much pleasure from attend
ing a show held in a building with
practically no ventilation, where the
heat became oppressive and grease
and dirt accumulated from years of
automobile storage made it hard to
keep a white dog clean.
There were the usual entries from
Kennels in Montgomery County but
the winners ribbons seem to have been
awarded to out of town dogs with the
exception of four or five Washington
owned specimens.
VivisectiOn
A booth conducted b ythe anti-vivi-
section society in conjunction with the
American Protective League was a
new edition.
Booths of this kind have been seen
at Dog Shows in other cities but as
a general rule these organizations
are not in favor of dog shows, as I
am told they consider it cruelty to
chain a dog in a small stall from
twelve to twenty-four hours.
There is no doubt that the Society
is doing great work to stop vivisec-
ton on living animals and were in
strumental in having bill presented
before Congress last January to pro-
hibit experiments on living dogs
within the District of Columbia, pro-
viding penalty of violation thereof.
This measure was sponsored by Jas,
L. Duff of Pennsylvania.
Live Dogs Separated In Three Parts
Separating dog in three living en-
titles each Independently learning,
remembering and Forgetting was de-
scribed before the American Associa-
ton for the advancement of Science
in Indianapolis December % by Drs'
lP. S. Shurrager and E. A. Cutler of
the University of Illinois according to
the Evening Star of Washington, D.
C. They severed the dogs spinal col
umn in two places, just below the
! meek and about four inches above the
= tail. Thus all impulses from the ami
q NAL brain which is supposed to learn
and remember were cut off. The dog
could see, hear, smell and taste with
Il his head, but it could not control the
4 movement of one of its paws from
the brain.
n Then the Psychologists started to
Condition" the three separate emit
ties of the dog, a technique widely
used by giving an electrical shock al
ternately to the tail and one of the
rear legs they evidently could cause
i the paw to move by stimulating the
1 paw alone. That is the last four inches
= lof the animals spine learned that a
: shock to the paw could be expected to
follow shock to the tail, remembered
what it's head learned and caused the
paw to move to avoid such a shock.
After the shocks to the paw had been
discontinued for a time the spinal
cord forgot and the reflex movement
of the paw ceased, the same independ-
kent behavior could be taught the other
two independent segments of the dogs
body; few inches of the spine func-
toned as brain.
The dog was kept alive under a
respirator. It is a rare occasion when
a daily paper brings before its read
ers the cruel side of any laboratory
experiment whatever, astonishing to
see the exposure of so unspeakable an
Ioneration as this And what rnaaxes