WAR WAGED ON DOGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20306, 13 July 1929, Page 3 (Supplement)

WAR WAGED ON DOGS.

ENGLISHMAN'S OUTBURST.

PROPOSED ANTI-CANINE LEAGUE

A bombshell for dog-lovers is about to be exploded by Mr. L. A. Corriger, a wealthy Brighton man. He proposes to ■wage war on dogs by forming an anticanine society, with headquarters in London, in the hope of making England almost doglcss. Ten years from now ho says ho hopes, tho only dogs left in the country will be on exhibition in the zoo, or those doing useful work on farms, or acting as sentinels. " I am prepared to throw my whole fortune into the campaign," Mr. Corriger said in an interview. " I don't care what it costs me. I am going to fight the dog menace with all the neans in my powsr." Mr. Corriger says he objects to dogs of all kinds. Ho states that he believes they spread disease; he holds that thoy are a nuisance in the home and in the streets, and that the world would bo better without them.

" I know a number of cases whero dogs have been the means of spreading infectious diseases," he said. " A dog goes out and comes into contact with all sorts of filth. It then returns home, and tho fond owner—especially if it happens to be a woman—allows the animal to fondle her or play with the children. Only tho other day I camo across tho caso of a child who had contracted an obnoxious skin disease through contact with a dog in this way."

Mr. Corriger says he thinks that cogs in the street are a deadly peril to human life. " Dogs ought not to be allowed out unless they are on the lead," he said. " Many accidents that happen are caused by dogs. Motorists swerve to avoid them, and in swerving, may run down a human being. It is a scandalous stato of affairs. " People who keep dogs ought to be made to pay through the noso for thoir foolishness. It is utterly absurd that so much time and money is wasted on these animals. Often they get more attention and care than the children. It makes me sick to see the way they are coddled and petted by silly women."