APPENDIX. 



The Foregoing Prtnciples Applied to Dogs, Es- 

 I'EciALLY Shepherd Dogs. 



From time to time the friend of animals lias 

 discussed in a more or less scientific way, the ideas 

 pertaining to them. Perhaps as good anthorit}^ of a 

 lat^ date as exists is Prof. Shalerj dean of the Lawrence 

 Scientific school at Harvard, and by the way ©f intro- 

 duction we cite his statement about the dog, which he 

 says was, the world over, the first living possession 

 of man be3'ond his owm kindred. The dog has been 

 so long separated from the primitive species from which 

 he sprang that we cannot place with an}' certainty his 

 kinship Avith the creatures of the wilderness. Like his 

 master, he has become so artificialized that it is hard 

 to conjecture what his original state may have been. 



We cannot accept the view that the dog is a domes- 

 ticated form of the wolf, as some suppose, from the fact 

 that it has been found impossible to domesticate the 

 wolf, and the dog has shown no tendency to revert to 

 the wolf type when allowed to run wild. On the other 

 hand he shows entire hostility to the wolf and all of 

 his kind. 



