Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1919 — Dogs in a Different World. [ARTICLE]

Dogs in a Different World.

It is widely known that fishes and other lower vertebrates possess numerous types of sense organs quite unlike anything in our own bodies, and it is quite Impossible for us to form any conception of what the world appears like to these animals except insofar as their'uensory equipment is similar to ourown. .. Even the companionable dog, who responds so sympathetically and intelligently to our moods, lives in a very different world. Recent experiments have shown that his sense of vision is very Imperfect, especially for details of form, and everybody knoWs the inconceivable delicacy of the hound’s sense of smell. With us vision is the dominant sense, and our mental Imagery is largely in terms of things seen. Even a blind man will say, “I see how it is,” when he comprehends a demonstration. What sort of a world is it to a dog, whose finest experiences and chief interests are in terms of colors? —Q Judson Herrick, in Natural History.