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1935 - PSYCHIATRY FOR BUTCH, THE BITING BOXER BUTCH, A FOUR-YEAR-OLD BOXER WHOSE INFERIORITY COMPLEX MAKES HIM BITE OTHER DOGS, IS TO GET SIX WEEKS PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT AT CANINE DEFENSE LEAGUE KENNELS NEAR LONDON. HIS WIDOWED OWNER, 40-YEAR-OLD MRS.CONSTANCE GAMBLE WAS FINED £1 FOR NOT KEEPING HIM UNDER PROPER CONTROL. BUTCH FIRST GOT INTO TROUBLE IN SEPTEMBER LAST YEAR FOR BITING ANOTHER DOG. A YEAR LATER HE BIT ANOTHER THREE AND WAS FINED £3. HIS MISTRESS WAS WARNED THAT HE WOULD DE GASSED IF HE DID IT AGAIN THIS TIME HIS DEFENCE POINTED OUT THAT UNDER THE 1871 DOGS ACT THE MAGISTRATES HAD NO POWER TO DESTROY THE DOG. BUTCH'S LAST VICTIM, A TERRIER, WAS BITTEN ON THE LEG AND HAD TO BE STITCHED. NOW PSYCHIATRY HAS COME TO THE DOG'S HELP. BUTCH WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO QUEENIE, AN 8-YEAR-OLD ALSATIAN. IF BUTCH BITES, SO WILL QUEENIE, AND HE WILL THINK AGAIN BEFORE DOING SO. HE'LL OOZE OUT CHARM AT THE END OF THE COURSE SAID ONE KENNELMAN. FORTY PATIENTS HAVE PASSED THROUGH THESE KENNELS. MANY CURED. MEDICAL NOTE: WHEN HE WAS A PUPPY, BUTCH WAS SAVAGELY ATTACKED BY TWO OTHER DOGS. DOG WITH A COMPLEX: BUT IS IT SPLIT PERSONALITY? BUTCH EYES HIMSELF IN A MIRROR

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