Mean Chowchow

Non-chowchow-breeders have long considered the chowchow the most vicious of domestic dogs. They are singleminded, leonine, black-mouthed, fiery-eyed beasts, interested only in their owners and sometimes surly even to them. Last week a chowchow leaped malevolently into the news.

When Mrs. Eleanor Maher of Oakland, Calif, went out of her house, she left her crippled aunt, Miss Charlotte Parker, 65, alone with her two dogs: Bootsie, a very old bulldog, and Chino, an 18-months-old thoroughbred chowchow. Presently Miss Parker grasped her cane and started to rise from her chair to go into the back yard. Suddenly Chino snapped at her hand. Then he went mad, knocked her down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman broke into the house he found Miss Parker lying unconscious in a pool of blood, Chino tearing the flesh off her arms. The patrolman knocked Chino off with a chair. Chino rushed at him, snarling. The patrolman pinioned him beneath the chair and shot two bullets into him. Then the officer called an ambulance and Miss Parker was hurried off to a hospital. After doctors had amputated her right arm, Miss Parker regained consciousness. She was grieved that the chowchow was dead. Said she, "I love dogs." Next morning Miss Parker, too, was dead.

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