THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS 

 IN INDIA 



The lover of animal life needs to be but a very 



short time in India to be both delighted and 



pained at the common relations between man 



and animals in that country, owing to the very 



contradictory treatment meted out to the lower 



creation by the natives. The black side of the 



picture is all too obvious, and those who have 



never been to the East can hardly realise the 



state of abject misery in which some of the 



domestic animals exist there. The greatest 



sufferer is probably the bullock, the ordinary 



beast of draught in India. He is habitually 



either underfed or overworked — the result in 



every case being that his bones are ready to 



start through his skin ; while his neck is too 



often cruelly galled by the yoke, and the 



twisting of his tail, as a means of making him 



increase his pace, is carried to such a reckless 



extent that it is common to see animals with 



tails kinked by dislocation of the joints, or 



even diminished by half of their length by the 



mortification of the over-twisted portion. At 



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