PETS TOO COSTLY
SAD DAYS I'OR DOGS. The National Canine Defence League, in Britain, estimated at the end of 1925 that between 150,000 and 200,000 dogs would be destroyed or abandoned during the next few days because their owners could not affords licenses. “It is pathetic to see the large number of poor people who, unable to afford a license, bring their dogs to our dispensaries for painless destruction,” said an official of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals. “It is usually the children who are sent with the family pet, and they ask that it may be ‘put to sleep,’ not realising the full significance of their parents’ instructions. But frequently working men come In, with tears in their eyes, and hesitatingly, as if ashamed, ask us to destroy their animals.” •
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3308, 31 March 1926, Page 7
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