Dog Dodge
Housewives in Capetown who had been mystified by finding the morning milk bottles half empty on their doorsteps, discovered, the cause recently,; it was a dog which cleverly removed the caps with its teeth and lapped as much of the milk as ft could reach with its tongue. Newspapermen have since provided this dog with bottles of milk go that they could photograph it “fit work,”, and the dog, has gladly obliged.' It is claimed* that if beats the blue-tits and other birds of Britain Who; peek the tops .from milk bottles, because it is more difficult for a dog to remove. a milk bottle cap with) its teeth than/for,£ bird‘ with its sharp beak. ■■ - v / • j • Vr- * / ’
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 3, 4 October 1948, Page 4
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120Dog Dodge Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 3, 4 October 1948, Page 4
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