Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1895 — Why We Like Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Why We Like Dogs.

Why do people keep such lots of dogs themselves and go In such livniibers to see other people’s dogs? Because the dog Is at once the siueerest flatterer and the most successful elieerer that the human nice ever had* A good dog always gives us the feeling; that we men.and women are a sort of gods. No other animal does anything of the kind. The eat treats us as aa Inferior, and the horse will treat ns as a dear friend, not a divinity. The dog. moreover, Imparts something of his peculiar gnyety to us In a way that Is irresistible. He mingles bis suggestion of guyety with his flattery; for he uot only leaves Ids dinner untusted to walk with us, but the mere fact that we are apparently giving ourselves the pleasures of a walk raises him into such a delirium of delight that the sight of It puts all our dumps aud blues to such reproach tliftt we shake them off in very shame. Aud when we don’t wulk, but sit moodily at home, the dog curls up lovingly at our feet, and looks up now; and then into our eyes, and “glides into our darker musiugs with a mild aud healing sympathy.” Yes; there is solid reason for the fondness of men for dogs, and It will never come to an end until either men or dogs become very different beings from what they, are now.