CARE OF ANIMALS.

Evening Star, Issue 22685, 26 June 1937, Page 19

CARE OF ANIMALS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I read with feelings of great disappointment your correspondent’s statement that the “ Blue Cross ” Hospital had been closed through lack of support. Surely all those who had had occasion to visit the hospital must have been impressed by Mr Frew’s skilful and kindly treatment of our pets, as well as by their clean and happy surroundings. I had visions, and so had Mr Frew, I think, of our having in the near future a hospital similar to those in England, where a child could take its pets for treatment for a small sum instead of having its finer feelings blunted by seeing those pets destroyed. Punishment tor ill-treat-ing animals does not always have the desired effect, and so these hospitals must bo a great help to the S.P.C.A., of which our late King was president. But this is not England, only the wealthiest city in the Dominion, which evidently must continue to produce such inhuman creatures as that one seen recently encouraging his dog to worry a poor cat (about to have kittens) until it lay dead. One can feel pity, too, for his wife and children. Possibly, he as a child, had had a sick pet destroyed. Some of our clergy take a great interest in the treatment of animals, and, as Coleridge says.: “ He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things, both great and small.” — I am, etc., _ Animat. Lover. Juno 26, .