34 TRAINING THK HUNTING DOG 



fulness and devotion to the common good that he 

 does toward his home in domestication. 



The wild instinct of friendly alliance is expressed 

 in domestication. He forms an attachment for his 

 master and the members of his master's family. He 

 may, however, form a more friendly attachment for 

 a horse. He concedes the domination of his master, 

 but he concedes the same to the leader of the pack in 

 a wild state. 



The dog in domestication soon learns to consider 

 his master's home as his own. If he prowls away 

 from home, seeking to investigate other homes, the 

 dogs of the latter consider that their homes are in- 

 vaded, and they bark furious resentment, or per- 

 chance fight and give the intruder a sound mauling. 

 The strange youths throw rocks at or maltreat him 

 if they can lay hands on him. Thus he learns that 

 his own home is the most pleasant to him. He does 

 not know of any other home, so that accepting the 

 best home of which he has any knowledge is not a 

 matter deserving of any special eulogy. 



Some writers have not hesitated to exalt the dog 

 as being, in many noble characteristics, superior to 

 man. His devotion, fidelity and unselfishness are 



