IV INHERITED FACULTIES IN DOGS 169 



front of his nose. There are thorough -bred pointers which 

 require no training at all, but which have completely 

 inherited the habits to which their ancestors were educated, 

 so that only a slight restraint till they have become perfectly 

 obedient is necessary to make them equal to the most 

 perfectly trained dogs. How different it would be with a 

 mongrel or a Pomeranian or a drover's dog. 



Once I took home from the Black Forest a dog about two 

 weeks old and brought him up. He grew up into what is 

 called a Wildhodenhund, which in shape and size is between 

 a badger-hound and a pointer — nearer the former than the 

 latter — and which is used to drive game towards the sports- 

 man by barking. My dog began as soon as he grew 

 up, although he was never taken out shooting, to drive 

 game on liis own account in the neighbourhood of my house, 

 which is in the country, and in spite of all punishment 

 extended his operations farther and farther every day. At 

 last he ran away in the morning, and only returned covered 

 with perspiration and tired out in the evening. I had to give 

 ■him away, but on account of his inveterate habit he was of 

 no use anywhere, and he finally came to an end on the dis- 

 secting table of a university laboratory. 



And even as I write this I can hear the barking of a 

 neighbour's dog, which was sold to him when young as a 

 badger-hound. But it is half a Wildhodenhund, and has the 

 habit of running about madly through gardens and yards in 

 the neighbourhood for some hours in the day, barking cease- 

 lessly, with his head down and his nose towards the ground 

 as though searching for game. In accordance with his 

 descent he still retains in part the peculiarities of the Wild- 

 hodenhund, and, without making further use of them, shows 

 them by running about in the attitude characteristic of those 

 dogs and barking in the same way, not knowing why, but 

 impelled by the mechanism of the brain-cells which he has 



