Many Happy Returns
- Eight lucky Whippets owned by a lady in Coventry have a small cake on their individual birthdays, while their owners sing "Happy Birthday"-
Now whenever anyone sings or plays this tune on the TV or radio the dogs go and sit round the table and wait for their cake.
Expensive tastes
- A Dalmatian carefully ate her way through £200 which her owner had left on the table on payday. Her owner waited patiently for nature
to take its course, gathered up all the pieces and took them to the bank, where she was given £200 in fresh notes.
Did you Ring?
- A nineteenth century anecdote tells of a convent in France where twenty paupers were served with dinner at a certain hour every day.
A dog belonging to the convent always made sure that he was present when this took place to receive the scraps which were now and then thrown to him.
He did not do very well out of it, as the guests were very poor and very hungry and therefore not wasteful.
The portions were served by a person at the ringing a bell and delivered by a tout, a machine like the section of a cask, that by turning on a pivot exhibits whatever is placed on the concave side without revealing the person who moves it.
One day the dog waited until all the paupers had been served and gone, then took the rope in his mouth and rang the bell. His stratagem succeeded and he repeated it the next day, and the next with the same good fortune. At length the cook finding that twenty one instead of twenty portions had been served decided to find out the reason. He lay in wait and saw all the paupers come and go and there was no other intruder other than the dog - he then saw the animal take hold of the rope and ring the bell. He reported his discovery to the community, and after that he was always permitted to ring the bell for his own dinner, which was duly served up to him.
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These extract reproduced from "Paw Prints". The official magazine for Friends of Cloverlands K9World.
Disclaimer :- While I have endeavoured as far as possible to verify all the items included herein, I cannot absolutely guarantee their accuracy,
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