Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1898 — Remarkable Dogs. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Dogs.

/ In Alaska the breed of dogs is red-disb-brown and the animals arfe as much like wolves as dogs; they are voracious and hardy and a team will dr&w 500 pounds. Forty frozen herring or one salmon will support a dog

for a day. They are not at all affetN tlonate and such a thing as saving a man’s life Is unheard of among them. There is a powerful breed of dogs along Smith’s sound that does not hesitate to attack the most ferocious wild animals. These dogs hunt in pairs and a big bear is a joke to them. One dog can bring down a reindeer and kill It in a few minutes. Their thick coat is tawny in hue and in winter a thick fleece of wool covers them. They look so much like wolves it Is hard to tell what they are at a little distance.

Labrador has dogs so fierce that a log of wood is tied to their necks tc render them less dangerous to men and weaker dogs. In Kamchatka the dogs are severely trained to haul heavy loads across the ice and their tempers get soured, consequently they are sur ly brutes and their drivers manage them by stunning them with blows over the bead, which is not very good for their intellects.

Lapp dogs are about the size of a Scotch terrier and look very much like the lynx, with long shaggy hair ol varied tints. They will fight off the wolves from reindeer. The dogs of Lapland, Iceland and Greenland have long hair, curled tails, pointed noses and ears and remarkably irritable tem pers.