108 GOOD QUALITIES OF THE DOG. 



of which many animals perish, who are prevented from returning to the 

 place where they once lived, and the localities to which they had been 

 accustomed. 



These are circumstances proving that the dog is endowed with intelligence 

 and with affections like ours ; and, if they do not equal ours, they are of 

 the same character. 



"With. regard to the foundation of intellectual power, viz., attention, 

 memory, association, and imagination, the difference between man and 

 animals is in degree, and not in kind. Thus stands the account, with the 

 quadruped as well as the biped, the impression is made on the mind ; 

 attention fixes it there ; memory recurs to it ; imagination combines it, 

 rightly or erroneously, with many other impressions ; judgment deter- 

 mines the value of it, and the conclusions that are to be drawn from 

 it, if not with logical precision, yet with sufficient accuracy for every 

 practical purpose. 



A bitch, naturally ill-tempered, and that would not suffer a stranger to 

 touch her, had scirrhous enlargement on one of her teats. As she lay in 

 the lap of her mistress, an attempt was repeatedly made to examine the 

 tumour, in spite of many desperate attempts on her part to bite. All at 

 once, however, something seemed to strike her mind. She whined, wagged 

 her tail, and sprung from the lap of her mistress to the ground. It was to 

 crouch at. the feet of the surgeon, and to lay herself down and expose the 

 tumour to his inspection. She submitted to a somewhat painful examina- 

 tion of it, and to a far more serious operation afterwards. Some years 

 passed away, and whenever she saw the operator, she testified her joy and 

 her gratitude in the most expressive and endearing manner. 



A short time since, the following scene took place in a street adjoining 

 Hanover-square. It was an exhibition of a highly interesting character, 

 and worthy to be placed upon record. The editor of the Lancet having 

 heard that a French gentleman (M. Leonard), who had for some time 

 been engaged in instructing two dogs in various performances that re- 

 quired the exercise, not merely of the natural instincts of the animal and 

 the power of imitation, but of a higher intellect, and a degree of reflection 

 and judgment far greater than is commonly developed in the dog, was 

 residing in London, obtained an introduction, and was obligingly favoured 

 by M. Leonard with permission to hold a conversazione with his extraordi- 

 nary pupils. He thus describes the interview : 



Two fine dogs, of the Spanish breed, were introduced by M. Leonard, 

 with the customary French politesse, the largest by the name of M. 

 Philax, the other as M. Brae (or spot) ; the former had been in training 

 three, the latter two, years. They were in vigorous health, and, having 

 bowed very gracefully, seated themselves on the hearth-rug side by side. 

 M. Leonard then gave a lively description of the means he had employed 

 to develop the cerebral system in these animals how, from having been 

 fond of the chace, and ambitious of possessing the best-trained dogs, he 

 had employed the usual course of training how the conviction had been 

 impressed on his mind, that by gentle usage, and steady perseverance in 

 inducing the animal to repeat again and again what was required, not 

 only would the dog be capable of performing that specific act, but that 

 part of the brain which was brought into activity by the mental effort 

 would become more largely developed, and hence a permanent increase of 

 mental power be obtained. 



