KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1947, 2 January 1914, Page 4

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

S.P.C.A.'S NEW WORK. The inspector of tlto Society for the Prevention cf Cruelty to Animals (Mr, J\ Seed) says that lie intends to givo attention t5 the stray dog nuisance in Wellington. It is not tho society's Intsi.itess to take charge of unregistered (logs, of which there were many in Wellington, bat. it was its duty, if a proportion of.thoso dogs were starving (as they were) in the interests of humanity to look to them. As a matter of fact, the society in Wellington had so far only touched on tho fringe of the work. It had up to the present becm restricted in its seopo for want of funds, but now, thanks to tli'3 Macarthy donatio*!, the society was hotter off titan over before, and the extension of. its work would doubtless rccaivo some attention. While so speaking, M>'. Seed drew the writer's attention to a dog trying to got a drink from a public horso trough, "There's something that really ought to bo attended to. There are no drinking troughs provided for dogs in Wellington, save by a few grocors. I w<Mt'd like io suggest that the society should procure a* number —they would only cost a shilling each—branri them with tho initials 'S.P.G.Aand place thein where some, sympathetic helper could attend to and replenish them. Sometimes the dogs jump into tho horso troughs altogether in the warm weather, and nave a real good hatli, Then horses ccmie along and drink that water. That is not right! is a better plait than that in operation in America, where tho buckot is replenished afresh after a horse lias Ttn.d a drink. What they did fifty years ago was all Tcr.v well, but hygienic views haves advanced, and we should do our part."