REMARKABLE MEMORY IN A DOG.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2049, 23 July 1885, Page 2

REMARKABLE MEMORY IN A DOG.

Professor Bouley, of Paris, gives the following remarkable instance of memory in animals; —A watch-dog belonging to the Goneral Omnibus Company named Jupiter, wasahvaysspokenofasa'ferocious' animal, its instincts andhabits beingexceptionally savage and sullen. Only oneof the men in the yard ever ventured within his reach. The dog one day got a kick from an omnibushorse which broke jts frontleg. The bandage which was applied was tied too tightly, andcausedinflammation, which threatened to turn to gangrene. As it was Buffering intense pain it was taken to M. Y atel, a veterinary surgeon, andMr Bouley applied an amethetic of before it underwent an operation by M. Vatel, About a month afterwards M. Bouley had occasion .to accompany M. Vatel to the omnibus establishment at Montrouge, of which plaoe he was the veterinary, surgeon. The moment Jupiter eawM. Bouley he manifested the most demonstrative signs of pleasure. All present were astonished when M. Bouley patted his head, when the . poor dog showed unmistakable signs of recognition: and V sympathy. M. Bouley remarks .that the singular point 'in the affair was the very short time in which he had been en rapport with the dog, the

application of the ether being effected in a few moments. The intensity of . the pain at the time, and the sudden relief, must have made the deepest depression on the Buffering animal, and we know that the memory of such impressions is. the most vivid." That brief moment," says M, Bouley, " sufficed to fix iu the brain of the dog the impression of my personality, whether conveyed by sight or by scent; and the association of ideas reproduced, a month afterwards, the feeling of pleasure and of gratitude which has been, experienced on the relief of the severe pain by the anesthetic,"—' Leisure Hour." •