CRUELTY TO RABBITS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1143, 4 August 1882, Page 2

CRUELTY TO RABBITS.

TO RUE EDITOR. t Sib,—lt is generally admitted on all sides that rabbits are a pest; does it, however, follow that cruelty should be used in the process of their extermination ? That a lingering excruciating agony ensues mi eating the poisoned grain (pliosphoriaed oats or wheat) _ will, I believe, be generally admitted. 'lrrespective of any knowledge I have gained myself regard in;,' the pain these little pants undergo, I may stale a certain inspector of rabbits has heon witness and closely attendant on the death ited of many of these unfortunate lurry little nuisances. He describes thesb death-bed scenes as painful in the extreme—their oriee -resembling thuae of children in pain. The poison, it would seem, eali through the large intestine, and from'the; varied and frantio evolutions the unfortunate bunny-pusses through 1 (he ia:deaoribed by the Inspector «s atandipg on his extremities and figh|in ; and''boratchy iug furiously wiih bin paws, giving vent to intermittent screams). musti fan tfipst cruel to the suhject and painful to any Christian beholder. liim.&o., Cede Dbo. N.B.—These facts are specially recommended 10 the notice of societies -W fh'e prevention cf cruelty to animals and humane persons in general.