Animals

William Seymour’s Dogs Communicating Concerning an Injured Horse

Published October 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM

1890s · 1892
Lawrence, Kansas

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Millennial Star Research

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On a farm near Lawrence, Kansas, two dogs exhibited a remarkable ability to communicate. After one dog observed a horse that had fallen into a ravine, it returned to the barn to communicate the distress to the second dog. The second dog then immediately ran to the location, while the first dog found Mr. Seymour and used gestures and barks to lead him to the woods to rescue the trapped horse.

In Their Own Words

“The most convincing and remarkable evidence that animals can talk to each other was witnessed a short time ago near Lawrence, Kansas, on the farm of William Seymour. ... The first dog hunted around the place until he found Mr. Seymour, and then by barks and strange antics attracted his attention and started back toward the timber. ... The dog went straight into the woods, and there Mr. Seymour found that one of his horses had fallen down in a ravine so steep that it was impossible for it to extricate itself. ... The fact that the horse was lying in an out-of-the-way place, with the additional fact that the second dog did not hesitate, but went directly to where it had fallen, seems to indicate that the first dog had told the second dog about the horse that was in trouble. — Millennial Star 54:46”

Sources & References

The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star (Manchester, later Liverpool, England, May 1840–1970), 14 November 1892 (Vol. 54, No. 46). https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_the-latter-day-saints-millennial-star_1892-11-14_54_46 (account extracted verbatim from the issue's Internet Archive OCR text; research confidence: high)

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