Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — The Bulldog a Good Dog. [ARTICLE]

The Bulldog a Good Dog.

No member of the canine family has been more persistently mal’gned than the bulldog. Writers who have no intimate knowledge of the dog and his attributes have described him as stupidly ferocious, and illustrators have pictured him as a sort of semi-wild beast, till the general public has come to look upon him as dangerous. “Give a dog a bad name,” is an old saw, and perhaps a true one, but when it is applied to the bulldog it is manifestly unjust. Writers, too, have fallen into grave error in claiming that the bulldog is deficient not only in affection but in Intelligence. No greater proof of the falsity of the latter could be given than was witnessed at the late Westminster Kennel Club’s dog show, when Col. Shults exhibited his trained dogs, with the bulldog Nick performing all sorts of wonderful feats, especially that of walking a tight rope, and when in the center of it, turning around and retracing his tfteps amid the applause of an admiring audience. Stonehenge, who is considered one of the greatest of canine scientists, claims that the bulldog’s brain is relatively larger than that of the spaniel, which dog is generally considered to be the most intelligent of the canine race, while the bulldog’s affection is never to be doubted.—Outing.