Dog Learns To Sort Mail
Submitted By: RedNeckedTulsan
Article Date: 10/26/2000
URL: http://www.goofball.com/news/INC20001018105545
LONDON, England -- A pet dog trained to help its disabled owner with household chores has gone a step further by sorting the household mail, a British newspaper recently reported.
Denver, a five-year-old male Cocker spaniel, collects the mail when it is delivered every morning and delivers letters to the member of the family to whom they are addressed, the Daily Telegraph said. The dog's owner, Jeannie Crangle, 45, said she did not believe her pet could read, but that he identified the person by the length of the name on the letter. "One day he didn't bring me the post at all," she was quoted as saying in the newspaper. "Instead, he took one letter to my partner, Tim. I didn't twig at first, then it suddenly dawned on me. The letter was addressed to Tim." Letters addressed to Crangle's son, Peter, who is away in the army, are left on the bed in his room, the Telegraph said. "People think we are crackers, but it really happens," said Crangle. -- Sapa-AFP