124 DOG STORIES 



RECOGNITION OF LIKENESSES 

 BY DOGS. 



{May 5, 1894.] 



IN the Spectator of April 2ist there is an 

 article on Apes, in which the following 

 occurs : " Monkeys, we believe, alone 

 among animals can recognise the meaning 

 of a picture." It may interest some of your 

 readers to hear that certain other animals 

 can also do this, two instances having come 

 under my own observation. A cat belonging 

 to a little girl I know was on the child's bed 

 one morning, and made a spring at a picture 

 of a thrush, about life-size, which was hang- 

 ing near. The other case is that of a dog 

 a female Irish terrier who is in the habit 

 of running with her mistress's pony carriage. 

 When she sees the pony being harnessed, 

 she often shows her delight by jumping up 

 at its head and barking. In a certain shop 

 to which she sometimes goes with her mis- 

 tress there is a picture of a horse hanging. 

 The dog invariably behaves in exactly the 

 same manner to this, jumping up and bark- 



