Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — A Tobacco-Chewing Dog. [ARTICLE]

A Tobacco-Chewing Dog.

A dog addicted to chewing tobacco is owned by John Holden, a butcher of Eighteenth and Sigel streets. The dog is an improvement upon the average tobacco chewer, in that lie doesn’t spit on the floor of a trolley car. He takes a bit of the weed, and, holding it between his fore paws, sucks all the substance out of it. lie has been chewing tobacco for about three years. Tobacco is the first tiling he wants in the morning, aud if he does not get it at home he will go out among the neighbors, who know the dog’s habit, and whine among them until he gets what he wants. He will not touch fine cut, his weakness being in the direction of plug tobacco. He learned to chew when a puppy, his owner being in the habit of giving him tobacco as a joke when he sat on his knee.