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About The Coquille Valley sentinel. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1921-2003 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1936)
OUT-OF-DOORS STUFF By Lana Leneve Much has been written and much has been said concerning the dog that recently made its way back from Portland to its former home at Co quille. Many theories have been advanced by dog owners as to how the dog could actually find its way back home. But now a veterinarian of Coos Bay steps forth with the solu tion (?). Kindly take notice of the question mark! This said doctor claims that It is the sense of smell that guides a dog and that authori ties are agreed upon that fact—the dog came all the way back from Port land by using his nose. Being somewhat of a stubborn cuss and not seeing fit to agree with a lot of supposed authorities concerning game, fish and dogs, I am going to undertake to show you where said authorities are “all wet.** No doubt in many cases the dog uses his noee to come home. I do not know that a dog, after chasing a coyote for miles in the woods, backtracks himself by using his noee. But on the other hand I would like to ask some of these authorities just w... . how they account for the case of Laddie, the Portland dog, who sev eral years ago was taken from Port land to Chicago in a baggage car and then found his way all the distance back home to Portland. The dog was shut in the car and had no chance to wind or scent objects along the way —yet that dog came back home. How? What guided him? My guess is as good as yours. I say that in stinct did. That sixth sense which I maintain that different animals pos sess and which sometimes stirs faint ly within man. I claim was Laddie’s guiding spirit, as well as the Coquille dog’s. It’s a sense that is inherited by a dog from his ancestors which lived by wits and fang and from whose throats hunting cries used to ring across the hills and plains. It's that mysterious sense given animals for their self preservation and pos sessed, I believe, by every four footed creature that stalks the jungles. Nearly every one will agree with me when 1 state that a dog is the pos sessor of more intelligence than a cat. Not long ago a cat was placed in a sack by a certain party living at Co quille. It was taken by auto ’way out by Drain and dumped out upon .he highway. A week later the poor animal, half starved, with its feet sore and bleeding, arrived back home. There are hundreds of cases on record where cats have made their way back home after being taken for miles away, shut up tightly in boxes and sacks. And now I am asking these authorities (?)—notice, I used the question mark once again—just how these cats returned home? Did they smell their way back, as the dogs do? Or can it be possible that the cat is smarter than a dog? No. It was that sixth sense—that animal instinct that direced those cats home, just as that same insinct directed Laddie home from Chicago and the Hill dog back from Portland. I was hunting one time in the Fish trap country with old Cap, my var mint dog. He struck a coyote track and was off on a long run. 1 waited until nightfall and he did not re turn, so I hit back for town and se cured some grub. Early the follow ing morning I returned to that dis trict, but no dog showed up. I hunt ed all day long for him and returned to town that evening, arriving there just as the old river boat Charm,1 pulled in from Bandon. As the boat docked, old Cap hopped off and came | limping to me. Upon inquiring of the , captain as to how my dog happened on the boat, he informed me that in ' the neighborhood of Riverton, as he . 'i".i .. IMPROVED GLIDING KNEE-ACTION RIDE* You also «rant the greater comfort and greater road «ability of Chev rolet’s improved Gliding Knee- Action Ride*. Millions of Knee- Action users will tell you thst this is the world's safest, smoothest ride. And, of course, it’s exclusive to Chevrolet in the low-price GENUINE FISHER NO DRAFT VENTILATION i You’ll get a lot of comfort out of this feature, too. 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Southwestern Motor Company S* CHEVROLET - PONTIAC - BUICK • LA SALLE - CADILLAC stopped at a wharf to pick up a milk •an, the old dog was seen sitting upon the wharf and that he had boarded the boat for home. He was at least ten miles from where he had started after the coyote. He had never, to my knowledge, been on a river boat before, nor had he been in the River ton district Yet that old dog board ed the boat and came home. Now any at these authorities, as they are wont to call themselves, are going to have a mighty hard time convincing me that old Cap used his nose to get home. No sir, he used his head and in the back of that shrewd canine brain there nestled that sixth sense, that instinct which dogs possess, and which will never be developed by man. and enjoyed the companionship of | ing. General sympathy seems to be Ask about Pacific Mutual 5 way good dogs. I believe they understand with the departed elephant. , | Policy. A. Ar Nosier, Jr., 147-J. that I return their affection. I have Feed your cat and he will catch I studied each one’s individual person-, that rat. But don’t starve him. A Ideal Bakery bread is slow baked. allty, his likes and dislikes and made ' well-fed cat will not molest birds Bitt a pal of each and every one of them. ’ like one that is left to go hungry. I My knowledge of canines is not have demonstrated that fact to my gleaned from the pages of books, but satisfaction here on the ranch. Our from actual contact with them, so 1 cat is well fed and to my knowledge trust that I may not be judged too has not caught a single bird while harshly when I arise to dispute some here, but each morning he comes • > of the claim of authorities on dogs. dragging in a rat or a mouse and Ixical & Long Distance when the fact is taken into consider Who knows—I may be partly right __ writer __ ______________ _ ation that one single rat in a year The feels honored, _____ indeed. by" Ben Lawrence’s comments con- will do more damage than any species ceding Out-Doors Stuff which ap- of hawk will in an ordinary life-time, Moving a Specialty peBre<1 ¡n this paper a couple of 41 e*** *** that ,uch • <*» la a WCeks ago It’s such comments that) valuable asset on any one' farm, brtng enCouragement to a writer. It’s A1 1 <az* ,rom the window I see something over twenty years ago that' something approaching—it starts to ; 44 l is------ . Sorry, but My association with dogs has I drove Ben in from Roseburg The ^ar\en th* taught me much, indeed, things to ac trip consumed something like nine or time’s up. I’ll tell you about it next tually marvel at. And the longer I ten hours and we were travelling all week. Phone 178-L associate with them the more I ad the time, too. But the road in thoee mire and respect them. Yes, I might days was somewhat different from Insured Carrier add, love them. When one spends the highway of today. Narrow road days and days in the fastness of the then, ___r that _________________ _ places ____ _ it in many, many jungles with just his dog for a com- was impossible for two can to page, »anion; snuggled beside him as he The road wound high upon the face sits by the campfire watching the of cliffs in many places with the riv- curtains of darkness drawn about the er far below. There were mud holes, big woods, trotting by his side down long stretches of corduroy and the forest trails, accepting food without stretch of road between Camas val- protest, though the rations may be ley and Rock creek was a nightmare, HALIBUT, LING, COD, RED SNAPPERS, etc. light, indeed; following through over which it eras impossible to trav- snow, storms or blistering heat and el fifteen or twenty miles an hour CRABS - CLAMS seeming to care for naught else but without shaking your car to pieces to be by your side—well, it is then Or shaking the passengers loops from that you really begin to know your their seats. In fact, I have taken ai- dog. It is then that you can see in most three hours over thst eighteen- those brown eyes the actual devotion mHe stretch of road. I’ll bet Ben still that shines there for you and can ap- remembers that trip. Well, thanks predate to the fullest that chummy again for your comment, Ben. wag of his tail. What a pal he is, al- j have »everal comments ways seeking in his doggish way to „.n„iing my articie concerning try and make you understand whet ..w,ny „ elephant that was a wonderful guy he thinks you renlly to for k|1Hng , H. E HUDDLE HAULING COAL Fresh Fish ICE For Sale DRANE’S Cold Storage *«*• am glad to state that they have all Since a very young lad 1 have had b**n favorable to my way of think Bandon-by-the-Sea, Oregon
