"THE DOG WILL RECOVER."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1022, 11 January 1911, Page 4

"THE DOG WILL RECOVER."

SHOULD MOTORISTS SLOW DOWN £j

"One dog was dead, the other had s( wound in his shoulder. A veterinary sur«<. ■geon was called, and -sewed up -.-ths wound. ' The dog - will recover. These* words were embodied in . the inspector s report, read last evening at. tie meeting of tho Society for the Prevention.. o£ Cruelty to' Animals. „ In explanation of the matter, Inspector-Seed mentioned that ho had been, called to a scene where a motor-car had run over two dogs, and he was informed that the people in thecar had. driven right- on* without 6top« Pl jfr. Richardson remarked' that there] • was nothing- -to - compel' - them to stopj Motor-cars' could not alwaysr avoid dogs, j The inspector said that, a veiy number of dogs were killed By carsSome of the motorists were boasting a&oug:. the number they had: killed. •. • "Half of them want killing,' said, Richardson, .who was plainly more inj sympathy with the motorists , than with: the dogs.v-He -said' he knew of a casoi, where- thS-ibi'akes; had .been'appM- to ;a motor-car- to ' avoid a. dog, : and. the can had : turrfed 'right over, imprisoned,' the occupants underneath'.- They, wera nearly suffocated when the.car .was jacked-J up to release them. • '{? j Mr. • Watson ' agreed with Mr. Rioflard-( son ■ .'was impossible for to avoid dogs. . He had personally seen acas° where a dog had been run, oyer 1 through no fault of the driver; of: the., car "What right have the dogs to.bsi running loose' about' the streets ?' . he) (is much right as the motor*' cars," said the, Rev. Mr. Glasson. : j "They're a source of ereat danger- td( motor-cars," was Mr'. Richardson's . re-; m "4nd the motor-cars are a source -_ ofi great danger to human life,, said -Mr. the discussion was closed by thef" chairman remarking that the* society 'could not compel motor-cars;, -to, slow, down to avoid killing, the-dogs. ,