CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 179, 23 May 1874, Page 3

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

TO THE EBITOIi. Sm,-— No person strolling about. Tauranga can avoid seeing a number of miserable, hungry look* ing goats, tied to pegs by little pieces ‘of rope about eight feet long. No matter what tho weather be, there the illusod shivering animals remain 5 and at times, by moving about tho tether-peg, the rope becomes coiled round it, until tho poor animals are drawn tight up to it, and aro fixed there perhaps for a Whole night in an almost choking condition. Aa it is natural for goats to roam over a wide extent of hind, tho fearful amount of torture they neeosaarilv endure when tethered, is a matter tor conjecture. Some goat owners are not Good Teinolarc, so that without wishing to give the slightest offence, I would advise them to f<>.e;o me nobbier por diem, and invest the sixpence ni milk, thou tho cruel practice of partially hung mg the unluekly goats day by day, might be T-jamaed with. t may add, that most of the goal < appear too weak and far gone in misery to be able to show symptoms of complaining by bleating, but indeed there ii one striking exception : an enormous and everlastingly tough old billy does bleat lustily both day and night, and at times h is cries resemble those of a human being in distress.——• I am, <&e., WniTTUiNaa fuo.u the West.