142 DOGS AND CATS, 



like Henry, or Henry like Eliza, or Eliza like Julia. Every 

 animal has his own character, as marked and distinct as a 

 human being. Many people who have not studied much 

 into the habits of animals don t know this. To them a 

 dog is a dog, a cat a cat, a horse a horse, and no more, 

 that is the end of it. 



But domestic animals that associate with human beings 

 develop a very different character from what they would 

 possess in a wild state. Dogs, for example, in those coun 

 tries where there is a prejudice against receiving them 

 into man s association, herd together, and become wild and 

 fierce like wolves. This is the case in many Oriental 

 countries, where there are superstitious ideas about dogs ; 

 as, for instance, that they are unclean and impure. But in 

 other countries, the dog, for the most part, forsakes all 

 other dogs to become the associate of man. A dog with 

 out a master is a forlorn creature ; no society of other 

 dogs seems to console him ; he wanders about disconsolate, 

 till he finds some human being to whom to attach himself, 

 and then he is a made dog, he pads about with an air 

 of dignity, like a dog that is settled in life. 



There are among dogs certain races or large divisions, 

 and those belonging purely to any of those races are called 

 blood-dogs. As examples of what we mean by these races, 

 we will mention the spaniel, the mastiff, the bulldog, the 

 hound, and the terrier ; and each of these divisions contains 



