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surgeon on which he proposes the dog shall be detained and 

 isolated as required by the Order. An imported dog must 

 be landed and taken to its place of detention in a suitable 

 box, hamper, crate or other receptacle, and as a general rule 

 has to remain entirely isolated for a period of six months. 



MOTOR CARS AND DOGS 



Unquestionably the greatest enemy that the dog possesses 

 at the present time is the motor car. 



Presuming the owner of the dog is fortunate enough to 

 know whose car it was that ran over his dog, and to have some 

 evidence of excessive or unreasonable speed or other negligence 

 on the part of the car driver at the time of the accident, he 

 will find the law ever ready to assist him. A dog has every bit 

 as much right to the high road as a motor car. Efforts have 

 been made on the part of motor owners to get the Courts to 

 hold that dogs on a high road are only under proper control 

 if on a " lead," and that if they are not on a " lead " the 

 owner of them is guilty of negligence in allowing his dog to 

 stroll about, and therefore is not entitled to recover : such 

 efforts have not been successful. Even supposing a Court 

 to hold that the fact of a dog being loose in this way or unac- 

 companied was evidence of negligence against his owner this 

 would by no means defeat his owner's claim, for the law is, 

 that though a plaintiff may have been negligent in some such 

 way as this, yet if the defendant could, by the exercise of 

 reasonable care, have avoided the accident, the plaintiff 

 can still recover. There are several cases that decide this 

 valuable principle. 



