HAVE DOGS A SIXTH SENSE?

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1925, Page 1

HAVE DOGS A SIXTH SENSE?

(Basil To/.er in “Daily Mail. 1 ’) A friend of mine who lives ill ; third-lloor Hat overlooking a road 01 the outskirts of London lias a terrie whose conduct tends to the belief lha dogs possess some sixih sense oi whir! wo know mulling. The windows of his fiat are mm:', 100 high above the floor for any do;:: lo be able to see out of them. Al day long a stream of motor and horsedrawn traffic passes alng the road lielow the windows, and the dog pays not the slightest attention. But now mill again a bores and earl goes by which, i liough apparently he can only

hear it. stirs him into a paroxysm of fmw' which lasts until the carl is once

There may he some reason for hifury which we know nothing about hut hoi\' does the dog know, even when iho windows are shin. that that particular cart is pnssig:- Torn invariably it is the same hor.se and cart which has this cfleet upon him. The same problem arises in the case of a dog of my own which lives in rtie front rooms of my house. At the hack there is a garden which cannot be seen from the front; yet the moment a cat or dog comes into the garden my dog. in the front rooms, knows that the strange cat or dog is there, for lie set- up a loud, angry harking which continues until he is let out, vht ii he ru-hes into Ih> garden to drive away the intruder. How did he know?

Another iriond of initio owns a Mtlldog. If anybody whom the dig does not know pi-ushes a latchkey into the lock of the front door at any time of the dav or night the dog s hack instantly bristles and he prepares for attack with threatening grow!?. But if his master or anybody whom the dog does know pushes in the latchkey the animal’s attitude- is entirely different. Yet obviously the dog cannot tell by the sound of the key being pushed into the lock whether the per-