ANIMAL POISONER ABROAD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22958, 13 August 1936, Page 16

ANIMAL POISONER ABROAD

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—l would like to commend Miss Edith Hodgkinson on her letter printed in this morning’s paper. I entirely agree with all she says about the poisoning of dogs, I have not the least hesitation in saying that the dog poisoner is a mean, despicable person, who should _ be tarred and feathered and pitched into a duck pond. The best friend a man has in this world is his dog. A man s son or his daughter whom he has reared the best way be knows may turn against him. A man may lose all his money, when he needs it most. The only absolutely unselfish friend a man can have —one that can never be ungrateful or treacherous—is his dog. Man’s dog will stand by him, rich or poor, sick or well. He will sleep on the cold ground. It makes no difference—wind or snow. All he asks is just to stand by him. He will guard the shop of a pauper as though he was a king, and when all other friends are gone there he will find his dog. And when all is over a man can lie in a grave that has no headstone; there he will find his dog, with eyes sad, but opening and watching, watching, waiting, waiting.—l am, etc., Alfred J. Crawford. Dunedin, August 11.