THE OHIO DEMOCRAT — JANUARY 02, 1892
Valuable Dogs are Especially Trained to Catch Fish.
Two dogs, male and female, were seen by the policeman at the foot of Third street about dark last night looking attentively over the edge of the dock. Suddenly one was seen to plunge into the river, while the other stood on the dock a few moments, showing every sign of delight, and then it, too, was seen to plunge into the water. The policeman, thinking that perhaps the dog-owners had fallen overboard and that the dogs had plunged in to rescue them, hastened to the scene. No man was there, but in the month of each dog a large water rat was struggling for liberty, while the dogs fiercely tried to shake the life out of them.
The policeman carried the dogs, after getting them from the water, and brought them to the central station, at which soon after the owner, who lives at Grosse Pointe, called for them. They were a species known as fish hounds and had been brought from the south. They resembled the Mexican in color and in having no hair save a tuft on the forehead, but in size they were as large as foxhounds. Their owner, a fisher-man, living at Grosse Pointe, catches his fish with a seine, and the fish are afterward placed in a staked inclosure. When fish are wanted the dogs are so trained that they plunge in and bring the desired one to their master. They are held at a good stiff price, as the owner finds them a source of great profit.
—Cleveland Press.
From— The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]], 02 Jan. 1892. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
