A Drunken Dog

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 134, 22 April 1886, Page 3

A Drunken Dog

One has heard a good deal about the fidelity, the sagacity, and the intelligence of dogs, but we do not remember having heard of a dog that was a confirmed and incorrigible drunkard. A dissipated animal of this description is, howerer, to be met with in the house of an American saloon-keeper, and the distressing news is published by his master that he is "slowly but surely drinking himself to death." Every means has been tried to cure him of his depraved propensities, but without appreciable result ; for if he is kept chained up half the day he makes up for loßt time during the other half, and drinks until he can no longer stand on his legs. Beer is the beverage he intoxicates himself with. He relishes it most when fresh and bright, but will content himself with stale, flat beer. This disgrace to his species is described as watching the trough in his master's establishment over which the beer kegs axe placed, and when it is filled with the ambexcolored liquid the intemperate animal will lap it up. Water he will not look at. Morning, noon, and night he drinks beer, and after imbibing it largely he goes to sleep, his first tkought on waking being beer. It is surprising to learn that this confirmed drunken quadruped is becoming extremely corpulent. The worst feature of the case is that, not content with indulging in intemperate habits himself, he is perpetually endeavouring to lead better principled dogs astray,