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
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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
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of the claim of authorities on dogs. dragging in a rat or a mouse and
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when
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fact
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Who knows—I may be partly right
__ writer
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_ 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
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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.
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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
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_ places
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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
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Since a very young lad 1 have had b**n favorable to my way of think
Bandon-by-the-Sea, Oregon