LEVIN'S CANINES

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 September 1915, Page 3

LEVIN'S CANINES

6ir,—lt only needs one moro type ol dog—the dachshund—lo be added to the pack of mongrels that roaon ;.no Levin street* and thon we will have specimens ol all the most useieas members of tho canine tribe wandering around. At present mere are fat dogs, lean big dogs, little dogs, '.logs with tails, dogs with nail tails, 'Uiu dogs without tails, dogs that look UJie ixjilen up door mats on lour sticks, and bull-headed brutes with Durmi muzzles. What time they are not- hunting iioae tiiey are annoying people or harrying the bhoop in the parK tiomaui. xlie wholo place is over riin with dogs and what the borough council has in view in tolerating such a state of affairs as obtains just now it is 'hard to guoss at. in canine matters the only places like unto Levin are the Alaon villages in the King Country. It a motor oicycle or a motor car, or even an ordinary oicycle—which any eell-respeotiug uog considers it beneath its dignity to notice these days—comes along, the-re i> a iuiirry of tour-footed wastrels altei it, yelping and buappnm up niouthiu.>i oi uust ana benzine smoKo. iNo one wishes to deprive any dog of his.rigiu to pursue hogs, bu-t many human i;eings use tlie above moans of travel, and they should bo protected iroiu an-

iioyaiice. rioine-uines wlien one stauu.spealiiug in the street, a dog ol Wiat ureed that appears to have had uie uoso pushed back by a collision witii a locomotive, will come up smiling, apparently considering ir tne Buieilee is a at and proper person to be bitten. This is a trying situation tor a nervous pewon 1 have been expecting lor weeks past to read in your paper; ' ! Mau eaten by dogs," or "JJoiough Councillor pinned down oy a bu.l-aog ; tho reading of these would move my feelings from one extreme ol uiv iniuiaii emotions to the other. i'lnatiy. 1 think that if the council is to continue ..to smile on ohe dogs n siioiiTu pay some attention to the par a domain and clear up the remains of the chase. On .Friday last there was tlie wool, skeleton and viscera of on. , Khoep • -.'. tered about near the \\craroa rolu! end, and at Salisbury street end the remains of several others hidden n. the dogs' laire under tho hedge; ana the whole place gave oil an odour akin to an ajsafoettida factory. It is a wonder--th-at tlie residents have uui complained before this. Aβ scavengers, tho «ouncil'e pets have not even the redeeming characteristic of the dogs oi Sfcaniboul. —1 am, etc.,

BILL BULLNOSJS.