Animals: Bark, Howl, Yelp

To the Wilbur K. Hitchcocks of Mt. Pleasant, N. Y., raising English sheepdogs is fun. To their neighbors it is no fun. Last February a court ordered onetime Justice of the Peace Hitchcock to reduce his kennel of more than 40 dogs to "a reasonable number." Last week into Supreme Court at White Plains stormed Neighbor George F. Murphy, textile manufacturer, to charge that the Hitchcocks, in- stead of reducing their dogs, had permitted them to multiply. Retorted Breeder Hitchcock: "Dogs will be dogs." Neighbor Murphy cited noises and odors, described a chart kept...