Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1920 — ANIMALS END THEIR HUES [ARTICLE]

ANIMALS END THEIR HUES

Cotlie Doge Said to Become Despondent and Weary of Existence When Usefulness Is Over. ; gome animals really commit suicide, says a writer in London Answers. A dog either from old age or suffering from an Incurable malady, will leap Into the sea. Especially is this true of collie dogs. A kind of melancholy seems to take possession of them when their activities and usefulness are impaired. The writer has known a Scotch collie to take, as it were, a farewell look at the old herding hills one day and then to plunge Into the sea with a whining cry, and tints end its misery. Hunters have known the elk buck and pther big game to leap over precipices deliberately and mangle themselves when the man-enemy was within steady range of his prey. ~ ' Ar stork harf been known to perish ’ in a conflagration rather than desert her little, helpless brood. A swallow was seen flying back and forth to Its nest after a wicked wrecking of her nest by some mischievous urchins. She was running the same risk as her birdlings, and seemingly faced the prospect of their fate unflinchingly. *. ——