THE UNWANTED CAT.

Shannon News, 31 May 1927, Page 2

THE UNWANTED CAT.

(To the Editor). . {sir—Will you kindly permit me to call the attention of your readers to a : much-needed letter in that bright pa* per, the ‘ ‘ Manawatu Times. ’ ’ , The writer point} out that people of humane but mistaken ideas think they are giving a cat a sporting chance by leaving it in the neighbourhood of farms. But on farms there is never milk to spare for there are pigs to be fed, nor art 1 there scraps of hieat, for there arc dogs to be fed. Also,' »s the writer remarks truly, a tame cat or a siekly cat does not hunt, but sits and cries itself to death —a slow and horrible death of starvation. Those of us who have lived , long in this “best of all possible worlds,” know that life is often much more cruel than death. We are much indebted to this Palmerston writer for the little known address he gives, saying that one lias only to ring up 671., office of the S.P.C.A., or 6817, the Inspector’s house, when the animal (great or small) will be collected and painlessly relieved of its unhappy life, and without charge. With apologies to the f original writer for quotations, I am, pfn “COMPASSIONATE.”