In the throes of re-decorationg and clearing up I came across this cutting which I have treasured for some years now.
It is from the Daily Telegraph journalist and (I believe) ex model, Celia Haddon; host of a Pets Letters column or, rather, a column featuring letters from pet owners.
The letter is from an "MD of Central London"
'Do animals have a liturgical preferences? Is there any evidence that pets prefer plainchant to Christian rock, or bells and smells to happy clapping?
A Catholic Cardinal's dog was accustomed to attending Mass every day and would sit quietly and attentively in the church throughout.
Then came the the Second Vatican Council and the liturgical changes that followed. The story is that as the Cardinal said the New Mass for the first time, his dog walked out of the church and, from that day on, refused to attend Mass.
Catholics who think the dog had a point might even claim that this animal had more sense than those who insisted on the changes.
Have you come across this kind of animal behaviour?
Is there a more down-to-earth explanation?'
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