VICIOUSNESS. AGGRESSIVE VICE. 



vSiibject maliciously using its natural weapons. Horse kicks, bites, crowds 

 against wall, rears, bucks, plunges, treads upon. Cattle use horns or fore- 

 head, or kick. Dog bites. Cats scratch and bite. Ticklishness different. 

 Developed or inherited. Revenge. Desperation in pain. Sexual. A 

 psychosis. Responsibility of owner, in selling, toward employe, in exposing 

 in a public place. Treatment : remove source of suffering, treat kindly, 

 secure confidence, castrate, place under ab.solute constraint, throw a la 

 Rarey, Comanche bridle, tie head to tail and circle, etc. 



This word i.s employed to cover only tho.se forms of vice in 

 which the animal shows a malignant disposition to attack or in- 

 jure man or bea.st. Each animal uses its natural weajions accord- 

 ing to the occasion. 



The horse strikes with his fore feet, kicks with his hind, bites, 

 crowds his rider's leg against a wall, or his attendants' body against 

 the side of the stall, rears, bucks, plunges, or treads his victim 

 under his feet. 



The ruminants, large and small, use their horns, and cattle 

 their feet as well. In the absence of horns they .still use the fore- 

 head, but much less effectively and usually only with the purpose 

 of defence. 



The dog attacks with his teeth and the cat with her claws by 

 preference, and uses the teeth as a secondar\' weapon. 



Swine use their tusks to rip or disembowel their adversary or 

 victim. 



A verx' ticklish horse cannot bear to be touched on the flank or 

 hind parts, without throwing the ear backward, glancing back, 

 showing the white of the eye, and lifting the foot. But if this 

 is mere excess of sensitiveness and begets no disposition to kick 

 it is not viciousness. 



The viciotis lior.se will in such cases bite or kick repeatedly and 

 with well directed purpo.se. He will moreover show the move- 

 ments of ears and eyes and attack his victim in the absence of 

 any such excuse, the simple approach being a sufficient occasion. 

 He will bite and strike with the fore feet at the same time, or he 

 may strike out with one hind foot or with both at once. He may 



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