DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
The dogs are* to the foreigner the worst pest in Turkey. The streets of Constantinople are given up to the mangy, maimed, famished droves which insist upon occupying the best parts of the pavement and snarl at the feet of the passers by. There is a rule that no one shall kill these miserable creatures, but, on the other band, no one ever pets or cares for them. They are left to fight among themselves for their precarious existence and, as a consequence, they are generally tailless, with their ears torn and their coats ragged Their only good seems to lie in the fact that they are a useful supplement to the city’s ineffectual scavenger force.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 355
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119DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue VIII, 14 August 1897, Page 355
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