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is also to be noticed the partial paralysis of the lower jaw; 

 the staggering gait ; snapping at imaginary flies ; the tendency 

 to swallow foreign bodies, such as bits of wood, small stones, 

 feathers, bits of leather and the like. There is often a dis- 

 position to run away from home when the disease is about to 

 manifest itself; the animal may be gone a day or two and 

 then return, or it may never come home. Rabid dogs fre- 

 quently run many miles from home, from twenty to forty or 

 fifty not being an unusual distance to travel. 



Rabies in other animals, such as horses, cattle, pigs and 

 cats, is manifested by similar symptoms ; that is, there is the 

 preliminary excitement, paralysis of the pharynx, salivation, 

 and later staggering gait from loss of nervous power, followed 

 by complete paralysis and death. In cattle there is a ten- 

 dency to paralysis of the lower jaw, shown by its drooping, 

 with salivation, inability to swallow, and excitement, the 

 animal in the early stages having a tendency to be violent. 

 Horses frequently tear at the seat of the bite with their teeth, 

 and also may bite or kick at any one who approaches. Pigs 

 run around their pens squealing, and also are inclined to bite. 

 The. disease usually lasts in these animals from four to six 

 days. Cats with rabies frequently have a desire to bite and 

 scratch, and their bites are very dangerous; the disease 

 usually lasts from two to four days. 



There seems to be but little clanger of rabies being spread 

 except by dogs, or the dog family, such as wolves and foxes 

 (possibly skunks), and not much danger from the bites of 

 any except carniverous animals, such as the canine family 

 and cats. Out of twelve thousand persons bitten by rabid 

 animals, Pasteur found that eleven thousand were bitten by 

 dogs and over seven hundred by cats. The horse, ox and pig 

 as factors in spreading rabies do not have to be considered. 



There is ample legislation for the regulation of the dog 

 problem, such as laws requiring owners to license them, to 

 provide collars bearing plates upon which are inscribed the 

 address of the owner and the license number, and the appoint- 

 ment of a dog officer or officers in each city and town to see 

 that ownerless, stray and unlicensed dogs are killed off each 

 year, after giving owners a reasonable length of time in which 



