THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



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Photograph from Department of Agriculture 



REMAINS OF 193 SHEEP KILLED IN A SINGLE NIGHT BY TWO DOGS 



The best friends of the dog are the most earnest advocates of legislation against the 

 renegade of his race — the sheep-killing mongrel. And when a pedigreed dog runs amuck 

 he is even worse than his nondescript fellow-sinner. 



able safety on a lonely island, and then, 

 with his dogs and one Eskimo, set out 

 for civilization again. En route, his lead- 

 ing dog, in trying to jump an ice-lane, 

 fell into the water. He was quickly res- 



cued, but the sea-water on his hair al- 

 most immediately became ice. To save 

 the dog from freezing, the two men suc- 

 cessfully chewed the ice out of their four- 

 footed ally's coat. 



SHEEP-KILLERS— THE PARIAHS OF DOGKIND 



NOT the vivid oratory of a Vest, 

 nor the lovable brush of a Land- 

 seer, nor yet the blazing eloquence 

 of a Byron has served to overdraw the 

 picture of the well-bred, well-trained dog. 

 But those friends of the dog who are 

 most jealous of his good name are among 

 the first to advocate legislation that will 

 at once protect the public from the evil 

 deeds of the pervert of his kind and the 



good dog from maledictions he does not 

 deserve. 



In these days, when wool is so high 

 that one has to wonder whether it was 

 not the sheep instead of the cow that 

 jumped over the moon; in these times, 

 when a hungry world abroad and a 

 diminishing meat area at home alike call 

 loudly for new meat production, the na- 

 tion suddenly awakes to the fact that the 



