QUESTION OF CRUELTY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 223, 21 June 1928, Page 14

QUESTION OF CRUELTY

V 1 METHOD OF SECURING A..BULL.

Dominion Special Sejl vice. Dunedin, JuJne 19. Whether the practice of tjethcring bulls by the rings in their no«es was cruel was the subject of a argument between a member and , the inspector at the meeting of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Crorelty to Animals to-day. The discussion arose out of a, clause in the inspector’s report which, stated that a man who had, tethered a bqll in that manner had been cautidnpd and that he bad been shown the corrqet way to tie up the animal. The correct way, the inspector maintained, was t« tie a rope first round the bull’s nedc and then pass the rope through the wng in its nose. ' . ~' , The member disagreed with thii, however, and stated that the method mentioned was entirely useless, as ttys bull could exert a very powerful strain on the rope when it was tied in thiq manner. Moreover, the animal woulfl suffer no undue harm if it were tethered directly by the ring.