M1KLTKKS. 



when not claimed. 

 Paris, they are MM, ply 

 carted away, unless the 



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ted Si 



In I8W this home 

 dofa, Tbr *Do*;8hel- 



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The writer has often seen, under the <>!<. 

 iltiiun of things, a cage half as big a- the \,,.\. 

 torn of a wagon full of wretch, a. fn-' 

 injurril. and tarnished dogs, big mi.l little to- 

 gether, emptied over the top of tin- higi. 

 fence, UK i<- me tin- run in tin- old n',;i 

 pound. ti|Mn tin- li.-inl lloor below. 

 them had legs brken in the rude full 

 they had no chance to save themselves; ^^H 

 stunned and remained for hour- 



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rijrht month* of it* work 5.111 dogs: the total 

 nurnhrr of nimals received was 22.028. of which 

 OS were lost animal* restored to their owners. 

 Th flntf rear the new dog law was tried and li- 



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less BfQlQpbobia t ha 



York were allowed to go un- 

 ipapers remarked that there was 

 than in many yeAre. This was 

 the flnt summer in many years when there was 

 not a fincle paroxysm of popular apprehension 

 of hydrophobia. 



From 25 to 35 dogs and cats a day are now 

 brought in by the society's agents. They are 

 tart thrv* dap unless they are especially valu- 

 able, in which case the society tries to "secure 

 Mai boaes for them, or in any cane keeps 

 the* a little longer. If an owner or son. 

 be does not wdaem an animal in 

 til placed in the death chamber and ns F 



TW Dog Shelter 

 "* he* the oool 



at the foot of East 102d 



and r ' r ,,,nd 



atoneofj- ., during 



tmw. whrn by far the lar^r num- 

 bi* of Ih* captor) animalu aro l.r.. lur ht in. In 

 and Brookln about l.V) dojrs and 

 day. Tho f 



wbo had 



. 

 and the *cene of con 



At 



sometimes rows, between 

 and the ruffians 

 or officials in charge. 



where th-y fell, moaning |.it-ou^ly. And then 

 tin- j>oor creatures were driven, kicked, and 

 crushed into the big iron cage, which would 

 lower them into the water and still forever their 

 half-human plaints. 



'\'\i^' old-tirne keepers, heroes of rattinp 

 matches and dog-pit escapades, enjoyed Imt on- 

 thing more than torturing the cur<. whi' 

 railed "ash larr-N." and that was the capturinj? 

 of some fine |.n -itnen from which they would 



he collar and chain and licei. 

 pull it from it-* shrieking mistress's arc 

 never let it get to the pound wh.-n- it could U- 

 redeemed. The old dog pound cau- 

 that could 1 '1 for block 



howlings of the inmates could !>< heard . 

 as far. From tin- wide-open door of the | 

 shelter to the genial face of K. , p. r I 

 thing beams with humanity. The 

 are often si-nt for to remove suffering m 

 These nmlwlnncos aro riainted red. I 

 oflj,-,. the shelter i- divided on on- 

 three long nins; fn the other, it has k- 

 for tlje mure valuable of the d< 

 the cat*-, while dowri the middle is ai, 

 sparo that enab! to walk through the 



place. In one of the King pen- an- tl- 

 brought in during the day, in another the I- 

 and in another the animals condemned to thn 

 daily execution because their time is up. On* 1 

 of the most interesting features of the whole 



