CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
(To the Editor.)
Si r> _Your correspondents lightly, condemn cruei •to animals. They seem to forget, however, the wild animals that suffer a thousand times more than the cats and dogs mentioned. Some.of your correspondents, no doubt, have nice fur coats. Did they ever stop to think of the suffering the animals vent through to provide them with "this luxury—liours o£ torture in traps or slowly burnt ,to death by poisoning. It is,all very well saying the animals are pests", but the wretched 'possum trapping could be wiped out of this country in a few years at least. Even now there has to be an ' off season so that we can proudly boast of another secondary industry. . *' " A trap was displayei. at the Winter Show some years ago by the Forestry Department, whicli.;could u-catchl;"'ariitaals without any. of the torture of, the old style. Was it a success,;and, if soy why was it not made compulsory?—l am,1-etc,, ■ , ; : ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 10
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CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 35, 10 August 1933, Page 10
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