NEGLECTED PUPS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 52, 25 November 1930, Page 8

NEGLECTED PUPS

Quarantine Treatment DAMAGES AWARDED Damages amounting to £4O were awarded H. N. Watson, of Palmerston North, in the case in which he proceeded against the Stock Department for failure to give proper food and attention to a Cairn terrier bitch and puppies while they were in quarantine on Somes Island. The case for the plaintiff was that some valuable Cairn terrier pups were received from England, with their dam and handed over to the Stock Department in good condition. They were released from quarantine suffering from eczema, rickets, and other troubles evidently caused by malnutrition. The department denied any neglect while the dogs were on Somes Island, but admitted that the pups were supplied with no solid food whatever, but fed entirely on milk. ... After traversing the salient points in the evidence the magistrate found that the suppliant’s description of the condition of the puppies was the more accurate, and as he discounted the idea that their condition was due to any agency inherited from the mother he found that it was attributable to the malnutrition brought about by feeding them with cow s milk. In the result he found that. the department was liable to the suppliant in damages.