STAMBOUL STREET DOGS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 878, 26 July 1910, Page 8

STAMBOUL STREET DOGS.

TO BE TRANSPORTED OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL. No descriptive work on Constantinople would ever be considered complete without a chapter on its dogs. But the streets of Constantinople will soon know them no more; an-edict has gone forth that they are to bo collected and transported to special quarters outsido tho walls of the town. The doom of the unfortunate pariah was" really sealed a couple of vears ago when a- prohibition was issued against the practice .of throwing-garbage into the streets overnight, to be collected by the refuse-carts in the morning. The street dogs found their chief means of subsistence foraging in these refuse-heaps. On the whole, however, they were a friendly and inoffensive breed, aud remarkably immune from disease. Every night for a. fortnight past (says a Reuter cablegram of May 22) municipal age;its, with covcred-in refuse-carts, have been perambulating tho town hunting the pariah. These sportsmen are equipped with a long pair of iron tongs, with which they seize the dog by the neck and pitch it into the cart. Naturally, the animals object, and the night is made hideous by their howls and yells. ' Thanks to (lie state of. siege which obtains in Constantinople, the Turkish masses havo been unable, even if they had been so disposed, to oppose the actidn of the municipal authorities. In two cases oiily have carts been attacked and the prisoners liberated.