CAT AND DOG WORSHIP.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 15

CAT AND DOG WORSHIP.

I Father Bernard Vaughan, speaking at ! Liverpool, eaid that he had b:«n tho i recipient "of wholo reams ot superfine ' I notepaper, on which old givls of both sexes had written for his enlightenment their "mind" about his denunciation of cat and dog worship. Ho gave samples, of what eomo of his assailants I had written. "My dog is dearer to mo than anyone else on earth." Another: "I don't know whether you have a soul, bill I know my dog has. ' Yet another: "You seem to think I shill bs damned be^ . cause I love my fr.itb.ful f ri;nd. Well. I Ghould prefer to be lost with him than saved without him." And again, , "You may say what you. like, but my | dog has more logic than any man, and r more love than any woman 1 ever met." i Once more, "I once tho\ight of becoming a ! Catholic, but aftev^ hearing of your 1 abominable cruelty to dogs I thali never join your church." "All this," Father, Vaughan said, I "v.ent to chow that ho v:as more than amply justified in condemning what had been called cat and dog worship." Ho I did not think tint pencrsion of love, | man's most Godlike gift, could go I further. j Cat and dog worship has evolved a I new profession. Nurses skilled in tho (lisntses of cats and degi i-i-n obtain regular employment at two guineas v i week for looking aft;r such prize and pedigree pets. Tharc is r. .-.training echool for animal nurses in Pimlico. A certificate i.7 grantsd to apt pupils after six months' experience in the caio of sick creatures .of all sorts, cats anu dogs particularly. I Many ladic3 who indulge in ?xtiavaganv cat and dog worship draw the lin? at eitting up all night with a sick animal. For this the services of a trained nurse are obtained.