Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Sense es Humor In Animals. [ARTICLE]

Sense es Humor In Animals.

You ask whether animals have any sense of humor. I am inclined to say yes, but it is not possible to prove it. You will often see a dog laugh as plainly as can be, and dogs seem to have an excellent appreciation of a joke on occasions. That beast and birds possess one or more senses in addition to those which we are able to boast of, I am often'disposed to think. For example, my dog, when lying half asleep in the back room of the second story of my house, knows when a mastiff goes along the street in front, and will rush to the front of the house barking wildly. He has been attacked by mastiffs on more than one occasion, and so has a particular prejudice against that kind of dog. Now, he cannot hear the mastiff, which has not barked, and there can be no question of smelling him any more than seeing him. Unless through the exercise of some sort of sense unknown to me, I do not understand how he can get his information.—[Washington Star. Biddeford, Maine, with a population of 15,000; cannot suppwt a hotel. „