INJURED ANIMALS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21332, 5 November 1932, Page 13

INJURED ANIMALS

NEW FREE SERVICES CLINIC AND AMBULANCE What promises to be a fine humanitarian work for animals, particularly dogs, cats and other pets, is being inaugurated in Auckland by the recently-formed Animal Welfare Association. The association has arranged to establish nob only a free clinic for animals whose owners cannot afford to pay for veterinary treatment, but also an ambulance for the conveyance of injured or sick animals. Both services, it is stated, will be the first of their kind in New Zealand The clinic will be at 474 Upper Queen Street, and will be conducted by Miss P. H. Dawson, veterinary physician. It will be open at specified hours every week-day. Persons wishing to take advantage of the free service must first obtain tickets from the association's representative, ilrs. Knowles, at 12 Wellesley_ Street East. It is believed that the clinic will meet the needs of many owners of injured or sick pet animals. Numbers of the latter are destroyed because their masters do not know what to apply in cases where skilled attention would restore their pets to health. The ambulance is intended primarily for the increasing number of dogs that are injured in the city streets by motor vehicles. An arrangement has been made with the Checker Taxicab Company to provide a vehicle in response to a telephone call at any hour of the day or night. Injured animals will be given prompt treatment or humanely destroyed, as the case requires. Members of the public who call the ambulance to remove an injured animal from the street will place themselves under no monetary obligation. The service is entirely free and the association accepts full responsibility.