UNWANTED ANIMALS
Sir,—Quoting from Friday’s paper- “ Yet (as is seen among the 125,000 Indians in Fiji) few Hindus would drown unwanted puppies or kittens ” Can such a statement be made, while some few New Zealanders (not Hindus) still turn many unwan teds loose to fend for themselves, starve, get the mange, or breed in semi-wild conditions, till, altogether out of control, they go wild in the bush to live on native birds? If members of animal welfare societies, the public, and those who send these creatures out, saw, or understood, the results of ignorant action. callousness, suffering, and unnecessary destruction might be avoided. Ignorance of the sex of young animals is no excuse for the cruelty of later discarding them, nor the misguided hope that someone else may find and care for the creature. Advice and assistance might be provided by all animal welfare bodies to mitigate the trouble.—Yours, etc., STILL HOPE. January 30, 1950.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26026, 1 February 1950, Page 8
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