DAVY CROCKETT HATS

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28020, 14 July 1956, Page 5

DAVY CROCKETT HATS

Sir.—“ Animal Lover” says that boys “need the enjoyment they get out of Davy Crockett hats.” They have plenty of things they can get enjoyment from without wearing hats that cause so much suffering. I have seen animals that have been caught in the steel traps. Some of them have had their legs almost severed, and others with bady septic legs. If “Animal Lover” has ever had a poisoned finger, he \yould know what the pain is. Humane rabbit traps that kill instantly are available In Britain now. If “Animal Lover” would join the local Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and help them to get the Government to introduce these traps it would be well worth while.—Yours, etc., BUNNY. July 13, 1956.

Sir,—So “Animal Lover” is up against persons who do not think when they write, so that somebody’s business is ruined, and little boys are deprived of the enjoyment they get out of Davy Crockett hats. It is the same old story—money versus kindness. He says torn limbs go numb. Would he like to give a public demonstration of now painless this barbaric method of destruction is by allowing himself to be chained to a tree and the fingers of both his hands clamped m a steel trap? I can imagine how he would yell for help. He says the writer has apparently run into a lazy trapper. I have talked to numerous people who have found trapped opossums that have starved to death. Others have found skeletons. One man I know found eight in one piece of bush, with the traps nailed to trees.— Yours, etc., DOWN WITH CRUELTY. July 13, 1956.