DOGS AND MEN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 3

DOGS AND MEN

(To the Editor)

Sir,—The theme of“dogs” was mentioned to-day, and a lady observed “People who own dogs should look after them. The looking after them includes a sufficient supply of food and drink, and its up to their owners to see they get this, and also to keep them off the city streets and see that they do not molest their neighbourhood either by day or by night. 1 do think that there are some things we stand more badly in need of than a dog’s drinking fountain. (There’s a river of almost pure water running through the middle of the city.) What about a sleeping place for the unemployed? There are stacks of them coming along for the winter months. Their vanguard is already with us. One of them tried sleeping under an upturned boat on the foreshore. He got as far away as he could, and he was molesting no one, hut through the offices of “a kind friend” living near by he got seven days’ for that “offence.” He was unemployed and without means and there will be many in his sad predicament in the months ahead. It should surely not be impossible for us here to provide some place where our unfortunate brothers —(and their state may yet he our state for all we know) can sleep in safety for the night at all events. —I am, etc., HUMANITY. Nelson, 12th January.

(To the Editor) Sir, —Referring to letters which have appeared in your columns urging the provision of drinking places for dogs, would you kindly grant space to present another aspect of the question. Rather than ask the City Council to provide drinking places for dogs, many (business people especially) would prefer that a bylaw be made prohibiting the presence of non-essential dogs in the city. Who has not been filled with indignation and disgust at the dog’s well known and perfectly natural but nevertheless filthy habits. In my humble opinion (and 1, too, am a lover of dogs) the only dogs that should be permitted on the city streets are those of the slock drover whose business brings him with his dogs to or through the city.—l am, ole., JACK BLUNT. Nelson, lOtli January.