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Communication With Animals
[April 12, 1884.] You did me the honour, some weeks ago, to insert a letter of mine, containing suggestions as to a method of studying the psychology of animals and a short account of a beginning I had myself made in that direction. ...
Conscious Automata
[July 31, 1875.] I have lately heard a story that I hope you may think worthy of a place among your illustrations of the thoughtful intelligence of "Conscious Automata." Many years ago, a family having a house in Grosvenor Square, and a...
Do Dogs Understand Our Language?
[Aug. 4, 1883.] I think the question has been mooted in your columns as to whether dogs sometimes understand our language. A circumstance that has just occurred leads me to think that it does happen, where they are highly organised and ...
Dog And Canary
[Nov. 20, 1880.] I was much interested in the account of the friendship that existed between the young retriever and the donkey whom he released by gnawing the rope. The little incident I send of another retriever may also interest your...
Dog And Kittens
[July 1, 1893.] The following story may, perhaps, interest some of your readers:--Willie is a small, rough-haired terrier, a truculent and aggressive character, the terror of tramps, in a skirmish with one of whom he has lost an eye. He...
Dog And Pigeon
[Sept. 22, 1888.] The Spectator does not disdain anecdotes of dogs and their doings, and I think the following history, to which I can bear personal testimony, may be found not uninteresting to your readers. At this delightful house in ...
Dog Consciousness
[Nov. 2, 1872.] Our terrier Crib took upon himself yesterday to add his testimony to your view of "dog-consciousness," as expressed in the Spectator of the 19th ult. Crib verges on perfection, save that he is frantically jealous of any ...
Dog Deceivers
[Feb. 9, 1895.] Your fondness for dogs induces me to send you the following anecdote, which shows their power of acting a part for purposes of their own. Some years ago a fox-terrier of mine was condemned by a veterinary surgeon to cons...
Dog Friends
[Feb. 16, 1889.] The following story of friendship between two dogs may, I think, interest some of your readers. Some time ago I used often to stay with a friend in Wiltshire, whose park is separated from the house by a lake which is ab...
Dogs And Looking-glasses
[June 23, 1894.] You are fond of odd actions of dogs, so perhaps the following may be acceptable. I have two fox-terriers--young dogs--Grip and Vic. In the morning, at early tea in our bedroom, Vic gets angry with Grip's reflection in t...
Dogs' Sense Of Humour The Power Of Imitation In Dogs
[Oct. 22, 1882.] The following anecdote may interest those of your readers who are accustomed to observe the characteristic actions of dogs. I can vouch for its accuracy, as I was an amused eye-witness, and several members of my family ...
Features In The Character Of A Dog
[June 10, 1876.] For some time past I have noticed in your journal letters and articles referring to the wonderful powers of dogs. As I was myself much struck by many features in the character of a dog which I knew, illustrating, as I t...
Guardian Dogs
[July 15, 1892.] Having read for years your interesting letters and articles on animals in the Spectator, I feel sure you will like to have a thoroughly authentic account of a dog in this neighbourhood. I am allowed to give the name of ...
Have Animals A Foreknowledge Of Death?
[April 30, 1892.] In a recent Spectator there is a quotation from Pierre Loti to the effect that "animals not only fear death, but fear it the more because they are aware that they have no future." Pierre Loti is a brilliant novelist, b...
Hospital Dogs
[June 26, 1875.] Dr. Walter F. Atlee writes to the editor of the Philadelphia Medical Times:-- "In a letter recently received from Lancaster, where my father resides, it is said:--'A queer thing occurred just now. Father was in the of...
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