WAR WAGED ON DOGS

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1929, Page 10

WAR WAGED ON DOGS

PROPOSED ANTI-CANINE LEAGUE.

A bombshell for dog-lovers in Britain is about to the exploded by Mr. L. A. Corriger, a wealthy Brighton man He proposes to wage war. on dogs by in" an anti-canine society, with headquarters in London, in the hope of makiii" England almost-dogless.' Ten years from now, he says, he hopes the only do"s 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. Cornget said in an interview. “I don t care what it costs me. I am going to fight the dog menace with all the means in Mr Corriger says he objects to dogs of'all kinds. He states that he believes they spread disease; he holds that they are’a nuisance in the home and in the streets, and that the world would be better without them. - “ know a number of cases where do 0 s 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 the fond owner—especially if it happens to be a woman—allows the animals to fondle her or play with the children. Only the other day I came across the ease of a child who had contracted an obnixious skin disease through contact with a dog in this way.” Mr Corriger says he thinks that do„s in the street are a deadly peril to human life. “Dogs ought not to be al, lowed out unless they are on the lead, ha said. “Many accidents that happen are Caused by dogs... Motorists swerve to avoid them, and in swerving majrun down a human being. It is a scandaloi state of affairs. , , “People who .keep dogs ought to made to pay. through the nose for.the foolishness. It is utterly absurd tha .so much time and money is wasted on tliese animals. Often they get more attentwn and care than the children. It makes rve sick to see the way they are coddled and petted by silly women.