Remarkable Memory in a Dog.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 184, 25 December 1886, Page 8

Remarkable Memory in a Dog.

Professok Bouley, of Paris, gives the following remarkable instance of memory in animals. A watch-dog belonging to the General Omnibus Company, named Jupiter, was always spoken of as a "ferocious" animal, its instincts and habits boing exceptionally savage and sullen. Only one one of the meu in the yard ever ventured within his reach The dog one day got a kick from an omnibus horse, which broke its front leg. TK© bandage which was applied was too ti^Lt, and caused inflammation, which threatened to turn to gangreno. Aa it was suffering intense pain it was taken to M Vutol, a veterinary surgeon, and M. Bouley applied an amu3thatic of ether before it underwent an operation by M, Vatel. About a month afterward M. Bouley had occasion to accompany M. Vatei to the omnibus establishment at Montrouge, of which place he was the veterinary surgeon. The moment Jupiter saw M. Bouley he manifested tha moat demonstrative signs of pleasure. All present were astonished when M. Bouley patted hi? head, while the poor dog showed unmistakable ei»n3 of recognition and sympathy. M. Bouloy remarks that the pingular point in the affair was the very short time io which he had been en rapport v/ith the dog, the application of the ether beingr effected in a fevv moments, The intensity of thy pain at the time, and the pudden relief, must have made the deepestlimpression on the suffering animal, and we know that the momo^y of such impressions is the most vivid, '* That brief moment," says M. Bouley, 'sufficed to fix jn the brain of the dog the impression of my personalitj', whether conveyed by sighc or by 3cent, and the association of ideas reproduced, a month afterward, the feeling of ploasure and of gratitude which had boon experienced on the relief of the severe pain by the ana-sthetic." — '* The Welcome."