DOGS IN ST. KILDA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23354, 20 November 1937, Page 27

DOGS IN ST. KILDA

TO THE EDITOR

Sir,—ln Tuesday’s issue you reported a discussion at the St. Kilda Borough Council meeting respecting the presence of dogs on the streets. Dogs have been the useful companion of mankind all down the ages, and still are. It is cruel to keep a dog chained up, and then when he is allowed exercise to keep him on a leash—and, moreover, if a dog is a nuisance, though as a rule it is not, it is more so when on a leash, since it is then prevented from leaving the footpath. A dog on a leash turns folks into the road to avoid the danger of being tripped up. Many mongrels, 1 would say, are as intelligent and as handsome as the pedigree dogs. To see dogs running about makes a walk more pleasant and interesting than it would otherwise be, and I fail to see in wav they are a menace to health. The dogs in St. Kilda, so far as I can see. are well cared for and fed. —I am, etc., A Lover of Animals, Especially of Dogs and Horses.