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DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



art, be made to vary, is probably due to the fact that the 

 group to which this creature belongs is one of relatively 

 modern institution. It has the plasticity which we note as a 

 characteristic of many other newly-established forms. The 

 flexibility of mind is a concomitant of the carnivorous habit 

 where creatures obtain their prey by the chase. Such an occu- 





Dutch Dogs used in Harness 



pation tends to develop agile minds as well as bodies, and 

 where exercised as it doubtless was by the ancestry of the 

 dog, in the manner of pack hunting, where many individuals 

 share in the chase, it is well calculated to insure a certain 

 free and outgoing quality of the mind. 



So long as our dogs were employed in the labor or the 

 organized recreations of man, the tendency of the association 

 with the superior being was in a high measure educative. 

 They were constantly submitted to a more or less critical 



