UNWANTED CATS
DISPOSAL IN MELBOURNE.
SPECIAL AMBULANCE.
Called to consider the question of the collection and destruction of unwanted cats, a meeting of the local advisory council for flora and fauna was held in Melbourne recently. Dr. A. Norman McArthur presided. It was announced that an anonymous giver had offered a substantial amount to the Animal Welfare League to provide a specially constructed cat ambulance and the wages of a driver and collector for the, collection and destruction of emaciated, ownerless and diseased cats. The league had accepted the offer, and the work would be commenced almost immediately in five industrial suburbs. The ambulance will be fitted with small boxes, each of which will hold one cat. It will make regular calls at definite points in each municipality to collect cats, and it will return to the league’s hospital where the animals will be painlessly destroyed. Careful inquiries will be made into the ownership of all cats which appear to be healthy household pets.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1933, Page 12
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164UNWANTED CATS Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1933, Page 12
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