RESTFULNESS IN ANIMALS I7 



enable the animals to realize their use, and yet not long 

 enough to permit them to do serious harm to their fellow 

 animals by using them, the spirit of viciousness is almost 

 completely broken. Dehorned animals are more completely 

 docile than animals naturally polled. 



Animals chased or injured by wild animals, as wolves, 

 or by wanton dogs, sustain injury far beyond that resulting 

 from the actual physical harm at the time. Chase and worry 

 swine by dogs occasionally, and they become restless. They 

 will in time rush away when a dog is called within their 

 hearing, whereas, other swine will give no heed to such 

 calls, indicating that apprehension, which means unrest, is 

 present in their conceptions. Sheep that have been chased 

 by dogs once or oftener, become so apprehensive that in 

 some instances they never produce profitably again. The 

 injury done by dogs to sheep and the apprehension of loss 

 from this source, has probably retarded sheep husbandry 

 more than all other causes combined. The supineness that 

 has been shown in dealing with this question by legisla- 

 tures is nothing short of a stigma on an intelligent people. 



In some instances animals suffer greater injury at the 

 hands of man than from each other. Some attendants are 

 simply brutal in their treatment of animals, and the same 

 is true occasionally of owners. The basis of their treat- 

 ment rests on passions uncontrolled. Angry words and 

 angry blows are of frequent occurrence. Their unoffending 

 dependents instinctively shun their presence when they can. 

 The unrest thus occasioned results in decreased produc- 

 tion. The penalty thus paid is always proportioned to the 

 degree of the unrest occasioned by such treatment, and it is 

 meet that it should be so. It would not seem fitting that 

 such offenders should reach final judgment before they re- 

 ceive the first instalment of the retributive punishment 

 due to their indefensibly harsh treatment. 



Unrest and sexual desire. With breeding animals, 

 unrest is occasioned at certain seasons by sexual desire. 



