Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Home Lover. In Seattle, the King "ounty Humane Society six times found a home for Steko, a 68-lb. stray mongrel, six times saw him come sneaking back to the pound, once from 100 miles away, at ast found the dog a "permanent" address in Petersburg, Alaska, on Mitkof Island...
...sensational. As a result they get the piddling instead of the important." Magazines are continually looking for features showing Skinner training pigeons to play ping-pong or count or bang out tunes on the piano. A movie company is now angling for a short showing him training a dog to do tricks. This completely distorts Skinner's work. Actually, every student in Nat. Sci. 114 soon learns Skinner's method of training animals...
Wildlife authorities know what to do and are doing it. Rabies, a common disease of wild animals, is believed to affect all warm-blooded mammals; it has been found among rabbits, moles, raccoons, mongooses, beavers and many others. Skunks and the dog tribe, including foxes and coyotes, are especially susceptible. The most unpleasant victim is the vampire bat of South and Central America (TIME, June 25), which gives the disease to the people whose blood it taps...
...Park Avenue dowager goes automatically if she wants a washboard, and to which an Indian prince once wrote for a bronco (he got it). For a price, its customers can get every nicety of modern living-from ten varieties of outdoor grills and 90 types of coffeemakers to rhinestone dog collars (for the cocktail hour) and bronze fig leaves (for statues...
...house in Oak Park and is concerned with whatever happens to be on the children's minds. They argue over the possibilities of getting a pony or about when, if ever, God sleeps. Sometimes they tackle such moral problems as the one that developed when Pamela let the dog indoors and it ate the family parakeet. There was agonized discussion about whether Pamela had, in effect, killed the parakeet herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last week, the Illinois Meat Co. added new territory...