Dogs on Hire.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 3

Dogs on Hire.

A petS-slock dealer in an American, city has in his shop window a sign that reads —" Dogs on biro<by day. weeE, or hour. Rates reasonable." A man asked the dealer, the other day, the significance of the s'gn : " Oh, it means just what it says," the dealer said ; '' people like to hire dogs now and then, the same as they like to hire horses and pianos. 1 clear from this branch of my- business quite ten dollars a week. Do you stw iltat handsome Russian wolfhound over there in the corner ? Well, i hire him out a good deal to young women who, are going to be photographed. In England, a lot ik women of fashion, and in America n lot of uiillionariesses, have had tlfcSr pictures taken of late with Russian wolf-hounJs at Ihcir side. Thai has set a fashion. Young women all over nowadays desired fo be photographed with wolf-hounds.. Do you know w+at a wolf-hound like Pete there 'isiworth. Well, sir, he i-t worth £BO to £IOO. And do you know w hat ho con be hired out for a cou- '*""" -pie of hours for ■? He can b" hiied lor fls. Hence he is hired often. lie i« in great demand. On the nantle of many a poor man's housu you ran see to-day the wife's or the daiighter'H photograph, with a magnificent Russian wolf-hound in the foreg*mnd. Aside from hiring dogs for photographic purposes, I hire them • for promenades. Young ladies visiting the city like to rent a Boston bull or a wire-haired Irish, terrier to walk down; the street with. A good dog on a morning's- walk gives u young woman distinction, ami it is now possible, thanks to me, for the girl to achieve that distinction for a dollar ortt o ."—San Francisco Argonaut,