Dog Stories from The Spectator

About this eBook

Editor

Strachey, John St. Loe, 1860-1927

Title

Dog Stories from the "Spectator" Being anecdotes of the intelligence, reasoning power, affection and sympathy of dogs, selected from the correspondence columns of "The Spectator"

Credits

Produced by Irma Spehar, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Dogs -- Folklore

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31847

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31847

Release Date

March 31, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DOG STORIES.
2. 2.Dog Stories — BY
3. 3.J. St. LOE STRACHEY
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION. — I. — II. — III.
6. 6.SYLLOGISTIC DOGS. — A DOG ON LONG SERMONS. — A COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN A DOG AND A HEN. — A DOG NURSE. — INSTINCT, OR REASON? — HOSPITAL DOGS. — FEATURES IN THE CHARACTER OF A DOG. — BULLY'S SHORT CUT. — CANINE INTELLIGENCE. — THE DOG AND THE FERRY. — THE REASON OF DOGS. — A CANINE SIGHT-SEER. — THINKING OUT A PLAN. — A PARCEL-CARRYING DOG.
7. 7.THE REASONING POWERS OF DOGS. — PURCHASING DOGS. — CAUTIOUS DOGS. — INTELLIGENT SUSPICION IN A DOG. — AN ALPINE DOG. — DOGS AND LANGUAGE. — DO DOGS UNDERSTAND OUR LANGUAGE? — HOW OUR MEANING IS CONVEYED TO ANIMALS. — ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. — ANIMALS AND LANGUAGE. — TEACHING DOGS A METHOD OF COMMUNICATION. — COMMUNICATION WITH ANIMALS. — INSTINCT OF LOCALITY IN DOGS. — RAILWAY DOGS.
8. 8.EMOTION AND SENTIMENT IN DOGS. — A DOG'S REMORSE. — A CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN DOG. — A DOG'S AFFECTION. — AFFECTION. — SYMPATHY IN A DOG. — A DOG'S HUMANITY. — A CANINE MEMBER OF THE S.P.C.A. — A DOG'S COURTESY. — CANINE JEALOUSY. — A JEALOUS DOG. — A DOG THAT SCORNED TO BE JEALOUS.
9. 9.DOGS AND THE ARTS. — MUSIC AND DOGS. — RECOGNITION OF LIKENESSES BY DOGS. — RECOGNITION BY ANIMALS OF PICTURES.
10. 10.DOG FRIENDSHIPS. — DOG FRIENDS. — FRIENDSHIPS OF DOGS WITH OTHER ANIMALS. — A LESSON. — CONSCIOUS AUTOMATA. — DOG AND PIGEON. — A HEN AND PUPPIES. — A DOG AND A RABBIT. — ANOTHER PIGEON STORY. — DOG AND KITTENS. — A CANINE NURSE. — A CURIOUS FRIENDSHIP. — AN ACT OF CANINE FRIENDSHIP. — DOG AND CANARY. — CAT-AND-DOG LOVE.
11. 11.CURIOUS HABITS OF DOGS. — THE DOG THAT BURIED THE FROGS. — AN EXPLANATION. — A DOG AND HIS DINNER. — DOGS AND LOOKING-GLASSES.
12. 12.THE SENSE OF HUMOUR AND CUNNING IN DOGS. — DOGS' SENSE OF HUMOUR. — THE POWER OF IMITATION IN DOGS. — SENSE OF HUMOUR IN DOGS. — A DOG'S SENSE OF HUMOUR. — CUNNING DOGS. — A DOG AND A WHIP. — A RUSÉ DOG. — DOG DECEIVERS.
13. 13.USEFUL DOGS. — GUARDIAN DOGS. — A TRUE WATCH-DOG. — COLLIES AT WORK. — A COLLIE AT WORK.
14. 14.MISCELLANEOUS. — A SUNDAY DOG. — A COW'S JEALOUSY OF A DOG. — AN AUSTRALIAN DOG-STORY. — TWO ANECDOTES OF DOGS. — A DOG OBEYING A SUMMONS — A PUG'S INTELLIGENCE. — ARE DOGS "COLOUR-BLIND"? — LUCKY AND UNLUCKY. — THE COURAGE OF ANIMALS. — SOME FACTS OF MATERNAL INSTINCT IN ANIMALS. — HAVE ANIMALS A FOREKNOWLEDGE OF DEATH? — OUR FOUR-FOOTED FRIENDS, BIG AND LITTLE. — DOG CONSCIOUSNESS. — A DOG STORY. — WOW: A STORY OF A CAT'S PAW. — THE BIOGRAPHY OF SPRIG. — A DOG STORY. — A CAT-AND-DOG FRIENDSHIP. — THE SENSE OF BOUNDARY IN DOGS.
15. 15.INDEX.

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