About fifteen hundred were owned in the town.
Very few Kamchadale dogs can bark, but they will howl oftener, longer, and louder than any 'yaller dog' that ever went to a cur pound or became sausage meat.

The few in Petropavlovsk made much of their ability, and were especially vocal at sunset, near their feeding time.
Occasionally during the night they try their throats and keep up a hailing and answering chorus, calculated to draw a great many oaths from profane strangers.
In 1865 Colonel Bulkley carried one of these animals to California.
The dog lifted up his voice on the waters very often, and received a great deal of rope's ending in consequence.

At San Francisco Mr.
Covert took him home, and attempted his domestication.

'Norcum,' (for that was the brute's name,) created an enmity between Covert and all who lived within hearing distance, and many were the threats of canicide.

Covert used to rise two or three times every night and argue, with a club, to induce Norcum to be silent.