OUR HOME PETS 



owner; his food depends upon some one's 

 memory; his comfort, his very life, are in the 

 power of another ; but the same is true of the 

 household dog and cat, still more of the horse. 

 Moreover, the last-named animal is so much 

 "v^orse 0$: that he;is;made to work, and often 

 $akUy aj)us'e4 byj his' owner, yet we hear little 

 sjrn;j>athy f expressed, for, his state of slavery. 

 r r rlt r p,c r ruei fo cJajftOre an adult bird, accus- 

 tomed to freedom and to caring for himself, 

 and confine him in a cage ; it is worse than 

 cruel, it is brutal, to neglect to provide care- 

 fully for his comfort when thus imprisoned. 

 But that a captive bird, properly caught and 

 properly cherished, must necessarily be unhap- 

 py I emphatically deny, and my opinion is 

 based upon several years' close study of birds 

 in confinement. 



By " properly caught," I mean taken from 

 the nest, or when just out of it. By " proper- 

 ly cherished," I mean not only fed and watered 

 as regularly and carefully as we attend to our 

 own physical needs, but in every other way 

 made as happy as is possible by loving atten- 

 tion and thoughtful consideration. 



As to the canary, born in a cage, of caged 



