Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1918 — Dog Recognizes Portrait [ARTICLE]

Dog Recognizes Portrait

In his reminiscences "Spy” sketches my credulity. He had painted a fulllength portrait of his host at a country house. When it w’as just finished he came down early one morning to inspect it —and found his host’s dog sitting up begging before the portrait of his master. It was Apelles, the ancient painter, I think, who depicted grapes so realistically that the very birds pecked at them. But in a long association with dogs I have never found one who could recognize a figure or a landscape in a picture. The nearest approach to such intelligence is when I have set a looking glass on the floor and confronted a dog with his own likeness. He growls suspiciously, uncomfortably, until he walks behind to find the other dog—that isn’t there! —London Chronicle.