DOG — EMOTIONS. 
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gregarious instincts, united with his high intelligence and 
constant companionship with man, give to this animal a 
psychological basis for the construction of emotional cha- 
racter, having a more massive as well as more complex 
consistency than that which is presented even in the case 
of the monkey, which, as we shall afterwards see, attains 
to a remarkably high level in this respect. 
Pride, sense of dignity, and self-respect are very con- 
spicuously exhibited by well-treated dogs. As with man, so 
with the friend of man, it is only those whose lines of 
fortune have fallen in pleasant places, and whose feelings 
may therefore be said to have profited by the refining 
influences of culture, that display in any conspicuous mea- 
sure the emotions in question. 4 Curs of low degree,’ and 
even many dogs of better social position, have never enjoyed 
those conditions essential to moral refinement, which alone 
can engender a true sense of self-respect and dignity. A 
6 low-life ’ dog may not like to have his tail pulled, any 
more than a gutter child may like to have his ears boxed ; 
but here it is physical pain rather than grounded pride 
that causes the smart. Among 4 high-life ’ dogs, however, 
the case is different. Here wounded sensibilities and loss 
of esteem are capable of producing much keener suffering 
than is mere physical pain ; so that among such dogs a 
whipping produces quite a different and a much more 
lasting effect than in the case of their rougher brethren, 
who, as soon as it is over, give themselves a shake and think 
no more about it. As evidence of the delicacy of feeling 
to which dogs of aristocratic estate may attain, I shall 
give one or two among many instances that I could render. 
A reproachful word or look from any of his friends 
would make a Skye terrier that I owned miserable for 
a whole day. If we had ever ventured to strike him I 
do not know what would have happened, for his sentiments 
were quite abreast of the age with respect to moral repug- 
nance to the use of the lash. Thus, for instance, at one 
time when all his own friends were out of town, he was 
taken for a walk every day in the park by my brother, to 
whose care he had been entrusted. He enjoyed his walks 
very much, and was wholly dependent upon my brother 
