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THE CHINA MAIL MARCH 16, 1988.
IS THIS THE GREATEST
LOVE OF ALL?
OU shut the front door
You
and
start down the path for a day's visit to some friends.
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Faint sounds fellow you a plaintive whining, a. hopeless scratching at the door.
"Poor old Rover," you say to your wife, it's a shame we've got to leave him at home. Still, he's got plenty of food.”
And that is probably all you think of poor old Rover, until his excited bark and joyous jumping in the direction of your chin greets your return several hours later.
You don't realise just how much it meant to the dog to be separated from you how his heart nearly brake with grief, how he would that cheerfully have abandoned handsome dinner, even risked his life, just for the sake of being in your company.
A dog will cheerfully suffer any hardship to be with his master.
Bobbie, a two-year-old collie, was taken on a motor car journey by his owner. They started from his home and finished up nearly 2,000 miles away, as the crow flies.
While they were there a pack of dogs united, attacked Bobbie and drove him out of town. His mas ter, unable find him, gave up the search and left for home.
Six months later a travel-worn, exhausted collie loped into his old home, and, tail waving, stood on his hind legs and licked his master's face with a loving tongue...
He had swum icy rivers; he had crossed the Rocky Mountains in the middle of winter; he had traversed deserts; penetrated forests and padded through towns.
He had been attacked by wild even been made animals and had prisoner by a dog catcher.
On this last occasion he was taken a considerable distance back
on his trail and when at last he "miles"in the escaped he covered-5 next six days..
Would
That is the question you will put to yourself when you have read this page:
It is a page that will thrill every animal lover,
separation if he can help it.
Bobbie's amazing journey was carefully investigated at was found. that for the first fifteen weeks. had travelled in circles, covering
Teddy, a big pet-toad, with a tag over 1.000 miles but moring only attached to his hand legs was taken 200 miles towards his objective.
by train to a spot ten miles away After that he seemed to find his from his home. He immediately bearings, although he never once headed in the <retting dire set foot on the road by which he hopped along a street crossed a bridge, and from then on travelled had the original journey by car.
For his exploit Bobbie received a in an almost straight line. gold collar and medals from all over
Some twenty hours later he ar- the world, but who can doubt that rived, rather dusty but otherwise he would have given a-cart-load of unharmed, and hopped up to his such things in exchange for the master, who was in the garden at touch of his master's hand after his the time. amazing pilgrimage.
The most unexpected creatures * *
acquire an affection for a home and That is what a dog will do, but, master. Listen to the exploit of a so strong is the human power to win drake, which was sold by one farm- affection from dumb creatures that er to another who lived two miles even a humble toad will not endure
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He was given a complete harem, but would have nothing to do with his new waves He made repeated efforts to escape, and the new own- er eventually decided to allow the bird to go free and followed him.
The drake immediately set off in the direction of his old home He paused for a dip in a roadside pond, took a wrong turning, discovered his mistake and turned back.
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When on familiar territory, he doubled his speed and arrived in a flurry of dust and flapping wings.
They will tell you that pigs can't- swim, but there is at least one which took its life in its trotters:
·because it did not want to accept a-new master.
It was taken several miles by road in a cart, out, in order to re- tud, swam across a mile wide take. At Graveside
But that swimmer has nothing. on the exploit-of a dog described in an old bock I read recently.
A ship in the middle of the Chan- nél came
upon a dog, swimming strongly towards the French coast midway between Brighton" and Calais.
It was found that he had been brought across to England some days before
There is a pathetic story of a water spaniel, owned by a French magistrate, who, , during the French Revolution, was condemned to the guillotme. For days the animal waited at the gates of the gaol in which his master was confined. He followed his master to the scaffold and refused to leave the corpse.
He would not forsake the grave; remaining - there for over three months, leaving the spot only for the purpose of seeking food and drink 54
At length he started to dig over the grave in an attempt to reach his master, and continued thus until ex- hausted. He was found some time- later, dead, lying in the hole he had dug.
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