Rover II, also Called Kimo 193 



once enjoyed their benefits, were not slow in 

 demanding them when they thought they 

 were in need of them. 



We had some difficulty, at first, in making 

 some of the more nervous or suspicious dogs 

 understand that these shoes were for their 

 good. There were those who would endeav- 

 our to tear them from their feet, and had to 

 be watched and even punished for so doing. 

 However, it was not long before even these, 

 having found out the comfort there was in 

 them, were now willing to resort to all sorts 

 of schemes and expedients to induce us to 

 put these comfortable shoes on their suffer- 

 ing feet. 



Rover soon became an adept in asking for 

 his shoes. He was not satisfied with them 

 on the one or two feet that seemed to need 

 them. He decidedly thought that " preven- 

 tion was better than cure," and so he wanted 

 shoes on all his feet, every day we were trav- 

 elling on long journeys. It was interesting 

 to see how he would wait until we were 

 ready to harness up the dogs, then he would 

 deliberately throw himself on his back, and 

 putting up his feet, eloquently even if 

 mutely, thus plead for his warm shoes. 



I did not have him very long. That fatal 



