The New York Dog Catcher.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 471, 14 May 1890, Page 5

The New York Dog Catcher.

H E other day I' a «| another New York * dog catcher came fiuVTT" £? " to grief, or rather !%/ grief came to him. ffc\i ijf) l '\ \\ A young lady in % f !\ the upper part of /&?%.. /*J4i •’ <he city went out /$/ m accompanied by a .>y<&dSj small bull terrier of the perfect blonde type. At &?> —the corner of Fourth Avenue she perceived two men who were trying to surround the dog. There was speculation in their eyes. The young lady picked up the dog and carried him under her arm. She noticed a queerlooking wagon waiting patiently on the corner. It was the wagon of the official dog catcher. The two men were his understudies, to use a theatrical expression. One of the under-studie3 seized the dog by his hind legs, but the lady held on like grim death. The dog was very much attached to both parties. The two-legged struck the lady in the face several times, and would have got away with the dog had not the driver of a grocer’s wagon intervened with the butt end of his whip. The two dog catcher were subsequently arrested, and will be tried for highway robbery. Not long since another dog catcher was taught a lesson. He seized a valuable Irish setter and brutally slammed it on the sidewalk, previous to inserting the animal in the dog cart. That was the last thing he remembered. He wms suddenly seized from behind, and churned up and down as if by powerful machinery, the owner of the dog, a trained athlete, furnishing the motive power gratuitously. His condition, when rescued by a policeman, was almost as bad as the party referred to by the poet, w’hen he wrote : His ocoput was shattered. And his frontal lobe -was battered. And his brains were badly scattered On the ground. Hisback was dislocated. And his elbows were mismated. And h s flesh was d< siecated All around. The dog catcher, as long as he performs his duty, and collates the stray dogs that accumulate on the street, should nob be interlered with. Unfortunately, he strives to acquire wealth too suddenly. He steals valuable dogs with licenses on their collars and sells at private sale. Moreover, generally speaking, he is more of a brute than the dogs he seeks to capture. For these reasons when he comes to grief he gets no sympathy from the general public.