CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19112, 22 September 1927, Page 11

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PBISS.

Sir, —Recent letters in your-paper have drawn attention to the foolish practice -of. carrying dogs an cars. If women understood ,the nature of dogs, they would know that_the odour of petrol is most nauseating' and- erne to them, as it destroys a dog s sense of smell and sight, which are a dog s best, senses. If women must nine something. to drive withthem, why not take a child or a friend, to whom a motor drive would ho a boon and give much happiness?— ete WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST. \ . "to the editor or the prkss. ' . Sir, —It is good to note that a seer tio'iv at least of the public are awakening to tlif need for an outcry against cruel tv to rnimals. There is terrible amount of quite .unnecessary suffering allowed to go 011, and we are most.-, of us, too apathetic to bother-about it, , even if .we notice> it. How many of the people of New' Zealand are' aware, I wonder, that last ' week' twelve . monkeys were imported fnr use in medical research, m Dunedin"; in other words, to be tortured under the' knife,.or inoculate; with some filthy disease or other, until an end- is put to their suffering by death. These poor dumb .brutes are .'almost'-humanr arid :that_iS-why w scctionists orefer thfem to most, other

animals for their terrible experiments. If we humans would only learn to live as Nature intended us. to do, we would bec-omo as healthy as the monkey is in his natural state, and there would then be no excuse for the cruel work of the medical researchers. It seems to me that this is a subject that should be taken up by the Press and the Church., and, above all, by the Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Could you tell me it the Society has moved in New Zealand in this direction? —Yours, etc., [Our correspondent's last question was referred to the. secretary of the S.P.C.A. by telephone, who replied to the effect that the Society is generally opposed, to vivisection, but that no action has been taken by; the local branch. —Ed.- ThH Piiess.j