DEHORNING CATTLE.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN,, Thursday,
At the annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the question of dehorning oattle was mentioned. It was stated that the society was in communication with the Home Society on the subject, and when a reply came the matter would be carefully considered. Mr John Roberts gave his experiences, and said he had seen cattle feeding a few minutes after their horns had been removed. He had seen cattle shockingly injured by othei animals horning them. Mr Justice William, said they should be exceedingly cautious in the matter. Members of a society like theirs were apt to fall into a mistake in treating animals as if they were human beings. There was an essentia', difference. If a man was going to have an operation performed he underwent suffering beforehand, and after it was performed the thought of it was suffering. Mr Roberts said cattle could be seen grazing a few minutes after being dehorned, but with human beings it would be quite different. What wa3 really cruelty to a human being was not necessarily cruelty to an animal. They must, however, take care that ahimals suffered no unnecessary pain. /
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 109, 8 May 1903, Page 3
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