Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1894-04-12
MILLIONS or CANNES.
Starving Animals In Constan tin opis
which Are Not Cared For.

Starving Animals In Constan tin opls
which Are Not Cared For.
II we had in the streetD OF New York
one-tenth the dogs they have in Con.
stantinople what row we should
maze about it. says the New York
World. How the public would rise
and rage. what fault everybody would
find. what leading articles would be
written on the subject, how the board
Of health would be buried under an
avalanche of complaints, and what elo-
guence and resolutions would DO
poured out at public meetings to de-
nounce the canine nuisance.
Perhaps, 1000. 900 street dogs would
have some influential friends In and
near the city hall, for they would solve
the great garbage problem. One
thousand carloads day of garbage
that has to be carried away and dumped
makes big hole in the money voted
for the commissioner of street-clean-
ing, and If there were system by
which all that garbage conld be con-
verted into a yellow'dog on the spot and
could trot off wagging its tail, not cost
Ing the commissioner a cent it is owl
dent that that honorable gentleman
would be worse than a Leather if he
did not come out strong in defense Of
this noble and useful animal"
| say that the garbage might trot
wagging its tail, speaking aztec the
manner Of those accustomed to the dog
IS we know him. But the dog of Coz
stantinople does not wag his tail.
Either that expression of canine salts
faction is unknown in his latitude, or
life is too serious for Indulgence in such
trivialities. The dog has a good tail,
but its relation to happy moods of dog
life is unknown-mainly, perhaps, be-
cause there are no such moods.
One of the common lines in the daily
reports touches things in sight-"cot-
ton in sight" silver in sight &c.
II any reporter should be required to
give an account OF the cotton in
sight in Constantinople at any given
moment his troubles would begin.
Naturally, it is movable quantity,
and. as with a very tall column OF
figures you get different result every
tune you add it up. Stop in the street
any whore and at any moment and the
number will never be less than q
dozen and may be twenty. They are
all asleep.
Four or five are on the sidewalk on
zach side of the way. Some stood
close up to the wall, some anywhere
along the middle and others are in
the roadway, others in the cutters,
which are dry, or else fairly in the
middle, Just where the carts, cabs or
other vehicles may rattle along at any
instant. Here and there half dozen
may be on foot but never on the alert,
for even those who are awake and are
so presumably under the influence OF
hunger stand around with a lazy,
.!stless, sluggish air of total dissatis-
faction-or at least supreme indiffer-
ence to all incidents of life.
These dogs are permanently in
state of starvation. Nobody feeds
them, and there is marvelously little
waste from the kitchens of the people,
% that the refuse that goes into the
street is mostly bare bones or the
inedible elements of food. Upon this
the multitude of dogs must live and
the stealthy avidity with which they
will run up to lick up even a grease
spot on the pavement where some
little shopkeeper's soup, cooking in
front Of his door, has boiled over,
tells wildly the rage of hunger from
which they are always suffering.
These packs Of dogs thus starved
would eat the people themselves il
they had the courage OF any good
canine race.
The dogs seem to have one recog-
nized enemy-this is the two-footed
scavenger who goes about with
basket and long iron hook gathering
bones, &c. They seem to understand
that he divides with them the treas
ures of the garbage heap, and they
set up q general howl of rage when he
comes near. But they keep out Of
reach OF his long iron hook. Him
they detest as rival and a robber,
but they have not the courage of their
detestation. / never saw them look
even with rage upon any other human
creature, but they are afraid OF him
all the same.
Their general condition is bad
enough, but to see them upon cold,
rainy day is pitiable picture. From
whatever dry or warm corner they
may find for themselves, they are
forced by hunger, and the poor result
OF their hunt for bone does not help
to keep them warm, and with the
misery OF wet and cold added to that
of starvation, they return to find their
warm places taken by others who
were before without even that little
comfort Only stolid, heartless,
brutal people would consent to see so
much misery around and about them
at all times.
The dog of Constantinople is what
We should call "a yaller dog" The
prevalent color is a tawny, dull yell
low, rather lighter than the tan In our
black-and-tan dogs. He has long
hair, but it is not long enough to give
him rough or shaggy coat His noss
Is sharp. his tail is bushy, and he is
about the size OF a coyote. His aspect
Is at once wicked and mean, and his
general expression touches any and
every point between the look of fox
and a wolf, but never has the frank,
open, pleasant confidence Of ihe doa
as we know him. He would be Zero.
cious If he had the courage, but he il
rather . stealthy sneak than o bolt
tramp.