412 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



[June 23, 1881. 



who knowingly harbored such dog within thrco days previous to 

 the time of such do;; being so found eroine abroad loose or at 

 lar.tpi .- :, nrl I he Commissioners of Police arc hereby authorized and 

 di eeted to cause complaint to be made to the' Corporation At- 

 torney again-4 the owner or possessor of every Bog permitted to 

 rii loose or !il Large within the corpo-a h I ,:■,-, ;■-' ,- ;\.ro,-aid. for 

 the. recovery of the penalties prescribed in this ordinal ■■ ■■ . ,h.1j 

 penalties and all licci -c I • .-. ,. la n -a Elected, to be accounted for 

 semi-monthly, and paid to the Comptroller of said city, and upon 

 Ike. requisition of the Mayor, (o be applied toward tbe payment of 

 B'afojeiug the pjrQviBloiM or (Ins ordinance Nothing in thia 

 ordinance shall prevent any dog from going into any such street, 

 lane, alley, highway, pad! or public place, provided such dog shall 

 ho held by snch owner or other person securely by a cord or chain, 

 to he not more than four feet ioogt fastened to a collar around the 

 neck of the animal. 



See. 2. Every owner, possessor or person, who harbors any dog, 

 shall take out a permit for each dog, at the Permit Bureau, paving 

 the sum of two dollars ($2) for the same. All permits, and re- 

 newals of the same, shall be dated from the first day of Max in 

 each and every year, and shall ho from one year from date, and 

 nil renewals shall be one dollar ($1). Said permit shall have the 

 name of the owner and the number of the permit or licensK on it. 

 Any dog so licensed must have a collar around his neck, with a 

 metal tag attached, having the number of the license on it. And 

 any dog so licensed must, when in the street, be held by such 

 owner, or other person, secured by a cord, rope or chain, not more 

 thau four feet in length; but the owner, at his option, may use, 

 instead of the above, a muzzle, constructed so as to prevent the 

 dog from biting. Any dog that is not so seemed, although he is 

 licensed, shall be captured the same as if no license was granted. 

 No dog haying a collar and tag, with the number of bis license on 

 it around hi» neck, that may be in a wagon or other vehicle be- 

 longing to its owner, shall be captured. Any perfou appointed by 

 his Horror the Mayor to capture dogs who shall permit any person 

 to take one or more, dogs from him for nothing, or for pay. shall 

 be arrested, and taken before a police Justice, and upon the facta 

 being proven, the judge shall impose a line of not less than $10, 

 or moro than Spit 0, for each offense. Any person may make a com- 

 plaint of persons having dogs unlicensed at the police stations. 

 and the officer in command BjrftU entertain the. same ; and all 

 policemen on patrol duty must report all violations of this 

 ordinance the same as any other violation of a Corporation 

 ordinance. All such reports shall be transmitted to the Corpora- 

 tion Attorney, the same as for other violations of city ordinances, 

 and in addition to the *3 fine, shall bo added all costs of suits for 

 the recovery ot the same as for any other violation of the city 

 ordinances. The provisions of this section, except those relating 

 to loading and muzzling dogs, shall not apply to dogs owned bv 

 non-residents, in remaiu'me, temporarily or in pas'ing through this 

 citv, or to does brought into this citv and entered for exhibition 

 at 'any dog show or annual exhibition of dogs. 



Sec. 3. The Mayor of the t'ny ot New ) 01 U is hereby au' horized 

 Bud empowered to take such measures sis'- he may deem most 

 elticieuf to carry into effect the provisions of section 1 of this or- 

 dinance. All dogs found loose or at large, as aforesaid, shall he 

 ■ ; 'i .■!.;. in, red and delivered by such persons as the Mayor shall 

 designate, at a place to be provided and indicated bv him, where 

 such animals. It not within forty-eight hours thereafter claimed 

 and redeemed by the owner or some other person, shall bo killed 

 and destroyed in such manner and by such persons as the Mayor 

 shall designate. 



Sec. i. Any owner or other person who may claim such dog 

 shall, before being placed in possession thereof, pay therefor the 

 sum of three dollars. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply 

 only to dogs owned or claimed by residents of this city ; and any 

 person who shall knowingly present any such dog, and claim pay- 

 ment for the capture theicof, which shall not be owned oreaptttred 

 within the corporate limits of this city, shall thereby incur a 

 peualty of ten dollars. 



Sec. 5. No person shall hinder or molest any person cr persons 

 so appointed by the Mayor while engaged in seizing or Capturing 

 and delivering any such dog as aforesaid, or any other person en- 

 gaged in the performance of. any duty enjoined by the provisions 

 of tfiis ordinance under a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor 

 moro than one hundred dollars for every offense, to bo sued for 

 and recovered in the maimer now provided bylaw orordiuance for 

 the reeoveiy ot penalties for violations of the ordinances of the 

 Common Council, on the complaint of the person so hindered or 

 molested ; the peualty, when recovered, to be accounted for, paid, 

 and appropriated as provided in section one of this ordinance. 

 The Commissioners of Police are hereby authorized and required 

 to cause the persons so engaged in the performance of any of the 

 duties prescribed by this ordinance, to be protected from hindrance 

 or molestation, 



See. 0. Chapter XLIV. of the Revised Ordinances of 1866, and 

 all other ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent or confliot- 

 ing with the provisions af thia ordinance, are hereby repealed. 



tree, 7. This oroneppc.u -bah i; la. ell eel. iiioi euiatch. 



THE PHILADELPHIA DOG POUND. 



THE dog pound of Philadelphia is under the charge of the 

 " Women's Branch " of the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals. The following report of the work- 

 ug of tho system under the ladies' direction is contained in the 

 cport of Mrs. C. E. White, presented at the International Con- 

 gress at Berlin last year and reprinted in " Our Dumb Animals," 

 of Boston: 



" Elevon years ago, soon after the formation of the ' Women's 

 Branch,' the Executive Committee of that society, fiudiug that the 

 taking up and killing of thedogs running unmuzzled in the streets, 

 which was required by the citv lawn and was in the bauds of city 

 officials, was attended with circumstances of tho most revolting 

 cruelty, and becoming firmly convinced that it would never bo hu- 

 manely dono so long as it was performed bv men who worked for 

 money alone, and who took no interest whatever in Hie aninialu 

 which came under their charge, applied lo the Citv Councils of 

 Pniladelphia, desiring that this matter of the taking up of the dogs 

 might be put into tboir hands, and promising if their request was 

 granted to perform the work as faithfully and conscientiously aa 

 possible. After a long delay their petition was granted, and 'the 

 city transferred to them the sum of three thousand dollars, which 

 was appropriated annually for this work, and at the same tune 

 gave them a piece of land in tho outskirts of tho city on which to 

 erecta building suitablo for their purpose. An inexpensive bouse 

 was then built, containing a sutficieut number of rooms to accom- 

 modate the family of the Superintendent of the ' City Pound,' or 

 ' Dog Shelter,' as it was named, and tho two apartments which are 

 necessary for asphyxiating purposes. Two largo yards were also 

 prepared, one for the malo aud the other for the female dogs,, 

 bordered by high fences, aud in which a large number of kennels 

 were built, so that each dog might havo one to himself if he 

 wished. Grapevines were also planted and made to ruu over 

 arbors or trellises to afford a shade during the extreme heat of 

 summer. Troughs were put up in different parts of the. yards to 

 furnish thedogs with water, and long tables or stands under shel- 

 ter, on which their food could be placed. The manner of catohing 

 and keeping and killing the dogs was entirely changed after it 

 oaine into tho hands of the ' Women's Branch.' In place ot the 

 barbarous lasso formerly in use, which choked a dog as soon as he 

 was caught, and in which condition he was frequently dragged 

 some distance, nets were substituted, which do not generally cause 

 the animal any pain. 



"The wagon in which the dogs were conveyed to the Pound was 

 provided with springs, and divided into two compartments, so as 

 to separate the. large|f roni the small dogs, the latter being sometimes 

 much injured by the attacks of their larger comrades. The plan 

 was adopted of keeping every dog a week whenever it was practi- 

 cablein order to afford the owner, if he had any, full opportunity to 

 redeem him. During that time the dogs were kindly treated, and 

 fed twice a day, the food being ordinarily some cheap kind of meat 

 boiled together with Indian "meal in the proportion of half to 

 halt At the end of the week if uot redeemed they were killed by- 



means of carbonic acid gas. The method adopted at that time 

 has been since pursued in most respects, except that the carbonic 

 acid gas has been changed to carbonons oxide, which scientific men 

 have decided to bo an easier form of death. The money received 

 for tho redemption of the dogs is all returned to the city, and 

 amounts to more than a thousand dollars a year. The exact pro- 

 cess of killing by means of carbonons oxido gas, and a description 

 of the asphyxiating room is published in connection with tho an- 

 nual report of the 'Women's Branch,' and will be sent to any one 

 making an application for it. It is better to familiarize the dogs 

 with the asphyxiating room by inducing them to enter it frequent- 

 ly, and' placing food there for (hem so that they may not suffer 

 from tho apprehension which is caused to so intelligent an ani- 

 mal by being confined in a strange place. In the cases where they 

 are sick at the time they are taken up. or have pups, milk is given 

 to them, in place of the usual food, as much as possible. It would 

 not be correct to give the impression that all the dogs not redeem- 

 ed by their owners are killed. At the time that this matter came 

 into tho hands of the 'Women's Branch,' either a direct or implied 

 permissiion was given to the President, of preserving a few of the 

 dogs that were calculated to be useful, either on acconnt of their 

 great intelligence, or from the possession of valuable properties, 

 such as being good watch or hunting dogs. All such animals are 

 kept alive, aud are generally sold when it can be ascertained that 

 they are likoly to have good homes, but in all such cases, two dol- 

 lars, which is the amount of the redemption fee, is paid to the 

 city. It is worthy of note also that m cases where the owners of 

 dogs are poor, and are very much attached to their favorites and 

 anxious to redeem them, but have not the money, the 'Women's 

 Branch' invariably aids them by paying a portion or all of the re- 

 demption fee out of its own treasury; Occaseionally, when the cir- 

 cumstances seem to render it justifiable, such as where a dog aids 

 his master to gain a living for his family, or where he is the guide 

 of a blind man, he is returned without a redemption fee. The 

 hop, rioiop.-P-.p! ,-,; , ,.-. I a, end a f.. , Pbe , i i e a inbiv iceoire 



pauies the men who take up the dogs, to see that they are guilty of 

 no unnecessary cruelty in the performance of their work. 



'■The average, number of dogs taken to the Pound in o year is 

 about three thousand. Of these, two thousand three hundred are 

 killed, and their bodies sold after death to he used for various 

 purposes of trade. About six hundred arc redeemed, thus ena- 

 bling the Superintendent to return to the city twelve hundred dol- 

 lars of redemption money. 



"The support of each dog averages a cent and a quarter a day, 

 exclusive of the milk, which, as before stated, is sometimes 

 given. There are five men employed m connection with the 

 Pound, viz., the Superintendent, Assistant and three dog catchers. 

 Occasionally it is necessary to have a man for two or throe days to 



bsist 1 



■xtra 



jrk. 



of tho Sup 

 which he has'his house re 

 garden ; that of tin, As 

 catchers, $721.80. The I 

 $2,900. this includes the 

 drawing the dog-wagon, 

 police officers accompany 

 sometimes necessary by m 

 whose animals are taken np 

 'The Pound is under tb< 



.ntendent is ffiSO a year, in additi 

 free, aud enough land for 

 taut, 4-540 ; that of the three dog 

 al expenses of the Pound are about 

 ipport of the horse which is kept for 

 r addition to the Superintendent, four 

 he dog catchers, this being rendered 

 te turbulent character of the people 

 id the resistance that they make, 

 direction of a Committee of the 'Wo- 



men's Branch.' The members of this Committee visit it, 

 have the entire control and management of the institution, con- 

 sulting with the Superintendent as to the advisability of any 

 changes or reforms that he or they may consider desirable. The 

 Chairman of this Committee pays the employees, and another 

 member of the Committee acts as treasurer, keeping all tho 

 accounts . 



••la, {lis hi-ipe thai ill" r societies may full 

 'Women's Branch,' of Philadelphia, and b; 



ameliorate some of the sufferings of one of the noblest m ouium». 

 this statement is drawn up and respectfully submitted to all 

 kindred organizations, by Cakot.tse E. White, 



"F'-esiderd of Women's Branch,' 



THE BOSTON DOG LAW. 



CtHAPTEE 27S. An Act to authorize the establishment and 

 ■> mentaiuance of a Dog Bhelb ' 

 tion of Crneltv to Animals in the 

 Be,!e„m1cJ,',lc, dsfc tow: 

 Sect! 



.uthori 



a the 



istabllsh aud J 



this Act, and r 



for Hie reoepti 



ieb she! 



bllahad 



lag 



of tho city of Boston may 

 ion of Cruelty to Animals to 



shelter for the detention of 

 seized under the provisions of 

 7 agreement with said society 



and f-eding, or bumanekill- 

 3gs : provided, however, that 

 r maintained when an adji 



la mayor of said city shall annually, within ten days 

 from the first day of July, issue a warrant to one or more police 

 officers, or any officer of said Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 

 to Animals directing them to proceed forthwith to seize and deliver 

 at such shelter all such dogs found running at large within said 

 city of Boston, not licensed "and collared according to law, and to 

 enter a complaint against the keepers or owners thereof. Such of- 

 ficers other than those under regular pay from said city, shall re- 

 ceive one dollar from the treasurer or said city for each dog so 

 taken and delivered as aforesaid. And all bills for such service 

 shall be appro rod as provided in section seven of chapiter one hun- 

 dred aud thirty of the Acts of the year one thousand eight hundred 

 aud sixty-seven. 



Sec. 3, Every dog so taken and received by such shelter, as here- 

 inbefore provided, shall be there kept and provided with suitable 

 food aud the owner thereof may redeem tho Bame at any time 

 within five davs. bv proving title to'said dog, bv showing that the 

 same has been diil'v liceiiftea according to law, and by paving a lee 

 fixed bv the aldermen of said city. At the expiration of fivo days 

 said society ma y cause said dog tot* humanely killed, or, upon pay- 

 ment of thu licensed fee required bylaw, it may sell or otherwise 

 dispose of the same. 



Sec. ■). For keeping and sheltering any dog, under tho provisions 

 of this Act, said society shall not bo liable to pay any license fee, 

 nor shall it be liable for keeping any dog at such shelter which is 

 unlicensed. 



See. t. Tho aldermen of said city shall have the power to pre- 

 scribe the price at which any dog taken and kept in such shelter 

 may be redeemed by the owner thereof, and all moneys received 

 by said society for the redemption and sale of any dogs kept at 

 encli shelter snail be paid to the treasurer of said city. \ Approved 

 May 13, lc81.] 



The food should be offered in small quantities every two hours. 

 About the end of the third week, if the dog is progressing favor- 

 ably, and the fever diminished, the diet may be increased. In 

 addition to the beef-tea and broth, small cjuantities of meat, suoll 

 as mutton or beef (tbe former preferred) maybe allowed. It is 

 more serviceable when rather under-cooked. Should this cooked 

 food be refused, raw meat is readily snatched up by some animals. 

 Sheep's paunches, well cleansed and boiled, are frequentlyrelished 

 by a dog at this period and maybe given with safety as they are 

 easily digested, Large quantities of" any kiud of food should not 

 be offered at a time, but rather small quantities every three or four, 

 hours. The quantities may be gradually increased as the patieut 

 improves and gains strength. 



Distemper is often accompanied with a bad form of diarrhea, 

 which, if not stopped, quickly proves fatal, A judicious diet | 

 greatly assists in stopping the purging. If beef-tea is given, it 

 should be thickened with gelatine; or if milk, it ought to be. first 

 boiled, but not given until cold. The meat of boded rabbit is a 

 capital thing for dogs suffering from diarrhoea during this com- 

 plaint ; and biscuits, made of arrowroot, of which dogs are very 

 fond, will be found exceedingly useful. I do not think it out of 

 place to again remind dog-owners that in this disease great atten- 

 tion should bo paid to ventilation and other sanitary arrangements 

 of the hospital. 



JAUNDICE, 



A dog affected with jaundice, or "the yellows" as it is seme- 

 mes called, generally refuses food. Por the first few days he. is 

 better without any, except a little weak beef tea, or milk and 

 water, to which is added a email quantity of lime-water. These 

 fluids at first should not he forced, but placed within easv reach of 

 the patient, so that he may drink or refuse it at pleasu: 

 case is a protracted one, the dog becomeB very weak, 

 necessary, if he will not take it voluntarily, to drench hii 

 beef-tea, which should now be made stronger. Plenty . 

 cold water, for drinking, should be supplied, as he is generally 

 feverish, and consequently thirsty, A dog which has had an at- 

 tack of this disease should be brought back to his ueusI diet grad- 

 ually, or a return of the symptoms w ill ensue. 



nOW TO XUBSE SICK DOGS. 



II. — BT A. I. SEWELL, M. K. O. V. S. 



HAVING pointed out how essential good nursing is to dogs 

 when affected with disease, and hud down a few rules for 

 their general management, I now propose to give a few hints on 

 musing animals affected with particular diseases. As distemper 

 requires great care for its successful treatment, I will take it first. 



IMSTEMl'ES. 



The rules for the general management of sick dogs must here be 

 observed, and then attention may be directed to diet. The first 

 week the diet should be entirely of a tlnid nature, as weak muttou 

 broth or beef-tea ; and, if these are refused, milk maybe offered. 

 After the first w-eek. when the dog is very weak, bread or biscuit 

 > the broth or other liquid food, which may now 

 er. At this period of the disease, the dog often 

 ishment. On those occasions it should be drenched 

 given it out of a bottle as in medicine. The beef- 

 i very weak, should be thickened with arrowroot, 

 and a small quantity of port wine added. A fresh egg, well beaten 

 up with a little brandy, may be given occasionally for a change. 



may be added t 

 be "given Strom 

 refuses all nour 

 with it— that is, 



tea, if the dog u 



. If the 

 is then 



with the 

 f fresh, 



The most common skin diseases affecting dogs are those which 

 isnlt from over-feediag, improper diet and want of exercise. It', 

 generally ill-oared for dogs that become affected with the v" 

 lent or parasitic mange ; but of course any dog, however well 

 cared for, may be the subject of this disease by associating with 

 one so affected. Very often skin disease— if it ho red mange, 

 humor, or blotch— may be cured, if not chronic, by two or three 

 doses of saline purgative medicine, such as epsom salts. Another 

 important factor is proper diet, as oatmeal or rice, well boiled and 

 mixed with tho gravy of a boiled sheep's head, or milk, just to give 

 H a relish, with plenty of vegetables added, as cabbage, greens, 

 spinach, aud, when they can be obtained, young nettles. Dogs 

 which have been fed on flesh will at. first refuse it, but owners, if 

 they want to effect a cure, should persevere, and starve the animal 

 to it ; for if the meat is continued dunug the complaint medicinal 

 treatment is nselesB, or, rather, the ease is prolonged. 



A dog with skin disease— except those affected with a contagions 

 kind, and then only when other dogs are about — to prevent the 

 affected animal transmitting it to healthy ones should not be 

 chained up or confined m any way, but allowec? liberty and plenty, 

 of exercise. 



Many dogs are habitually constipated, aud by constantly receiy- 

 bag doses of purgative medicine the complaint is aggravated. la- 

 stead of continually dosiug the dog, add some oatmeal and vege- 

 tables with the other diet, and the above condition of the bowels 

 will soon be altered. Another good remedy for this troublesome i 

 complaint is liver, which should be given rather under-cooked' 

 (boiled); a couple of mealB of liver per week will soon restore thai 

 bowelsto their normal state. 



I 



Again, other dogs' bowels are always in a relaxed 

 This state generally results from food irritatiug the intf 

 have frequently observed that dogs which eat the biscud 

 fer most from this complaint ; but when the biscuits 

 soaked, this condition has entirely changed. Another 

 edy is water in which rice has been boiled ; also boiled n 



I might mentiou here that after several experimental trials, I 

 find that puppies fed on Swiss condensed milk instead of cows' 

 thrive very much better, and arc not so much infested with worms. 



SLIPS.— There are said to be 20,000 hounds in "England, the. 

 Coat of whose maintenance is estimated to be ■'82,500.000 per an- 

 num The many fox hunters in Montgomery, Delaware anil' 



Chester counties, Penn., predict gieat sport for next fall. Be- 

 tween Mr. Wain's new pack of nineteen imported hounds and the 

 packs of the Rose Tree, West Chester and Paoli clubs, poor Ley- 



nardwill have anything but a pleasant existence Mr. J. Otis 



Fellows called one of his cocker whelps Cape Horn, because he 



sayB "she is hard to get around." The slipping of Bobinfr 



Island from the grasp of the Eastern Field Trials Club has occa- 

 sioned no little, anxiety to the management. Gardner's Inland, 

 situated about, twenty miles to the eastward, is now talked of. but. 

 it is extremely unlikely that Mr. Gardner will, at this late day, 

 consent to the open sesame to his grand preserve, which for years 

 has been so jealously guarded. 



THE E&BTEKN FIELD TRIALS CLUB.— At a special meet- 

 ing of this organization, held on Thursday, June 16, this city, tbd 

 following members were present to vote on the adoption of a. new 

 constitution and by-laws: Messrs. Donuer i President'), Livingston,. 

 Coster, Cornell, Webb, Spooner, Danforth, Hamilton, Pontz.Herz- 

 berg and Von Lengerke. After a discussion of each section of the 

 majority's report of the committee empowered to draw np the 

 --'.'-.- lbs rovin. in ifs -- ado L, o d, uli'tcb v.ih uel p u i;,ivi effeci iPllll 

 the annual meeting of next year. 



WANTED— The pedigree of English setter bitch Vie owned by 

 Mr. M.L. Norton, Greenland, L. I. ; Campbell's imported English^ 

 setter batch Flora, and Fausmau and Smith's English setter Lash. 

 Address D. D. this office. 



KENKEL NOTES. 



•„* Hreaders and owners of doga are invilrd to tend ?«ei 

 tl f names claimed, bred, whelps, sale*, etc., for inwrtion in thin 

 We make no charge for the publication of 6ucfi note*; but r&titest 

 efts* the notice be- wade np in accordance ivilh cur form, that the 

 both, owner and dog be written legibly, or printed, ami that the 

 which the annual belongs be distinctlt) stated. 



Names Claimed. 



Baron, Herg. Bishoo, Braoi'i. Trrom. Munrn, Bono and I!r 

 A. H- Whitney. Lancaster, Mas,., claims r.lie above mimeg i 

 ter of seven st. La nir.ri! nog puppies and one bitch puppv 

 June VI, by Mr. L. Z. Collins' Import ed houssenu out of own 

 hi Id. 



josephns— Mr. Jiio. A. Heether, Hunts/vine, Mo., claims th 



beep. .Pi i i'.'.' lilaek, v,hee r [an :V'i.ie do;; pPpp.i P I; 



Kilto'i OUt 01 VepiiS l.Kl'llSSBlS-Sally.) 



r.iilu U.-Mr. J no. A. Heether, Hnrpsyllle. Mo., claim., th 

 Billy H for red Trial! setter U"K puppy by "Yank dnipoited ; 

 Cora) out ot Nelly .heo-alav , p ij-.Hiiv.eo: p.' Sir. B p .:.. ■ o 

 cothe, ifo. 



Urnre Guvimond—Mr. P. N. Geradtn (Captain of Tollcc 

 Mich., claims the name or Cmce Gumniond tor white, 

 ticked pointer bitch puppy, whelped bee. -ai, t,y Kniil 



.losie. piesented to the Captain by the Lfiioli ['.-■_, ■ , : 



fflHiw-Mr. A. B. Cooke, Portland, 3. \.. claims th. 

 Glennv for liver and white ticked pointer hitch puppy 

 il, by King now out of Grace, bred by the Detn 



m-MLhb 



I he pi,- 

 .'.. helped 

 '? Brtin- 



'hi'b. 



r lei 



la-Mr. J. J. JOTda 



and 



,. Wlnchestei 



claims the r 



v.iioe setter dog puppy, with dark point 

 , Gladstone out ot Leila cLelcester-Kirh.y 



April 



Capt. I. V. ..-, . 

 Duke - Mr. w. H. (.'oursen, tvewron 

 ... white ana tan beagle doc,', 

 Kinglet. 



