Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-10-25
TAKING PETS ABROAD
Provision is Nov Made for Travel
 tag DOgs, ca1 and BirdA
ReGz1Ax Fare Is CAARsSA for the AAa- mAks aaA TAsv Receive tAs Best ox Care. Bss TAsy Get
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To take c pet abroad generally in- surss much inconvenience 10 both own CT and animal, but it is practice Which Is becoming more common every year. Special provision for traSeling oogs' eata and birds are now made by the various steAmpship lines, and 6 regular rate of charges for them is maintained.
 The regular fare from New York to Europe for . dog of ordinary s!1e and requirements is sl0. This is the charge made by all lines. bat some of them demand t20 for supplying passage and hrst-elaks service to very large or im- portAnt members of the canine world
 As soon as the dog passenger arrives on board he must be turned over To the butcher. a fact which, were it more gen orally known. might open new held 10 the numerous parsgrapher, or at least sustain him in his oft-repeated face tious to the dog as a food product But 1t is patent the butcher does not read the comic papers. for he makes no effort to reduce Fido to sausage meat h. stead he takes entire charge of him dur ing the voyage. and keeps him well fed and well housed in kennel in the after part of the lower deck. for which service be expects, and usually receives, sub stAntial fee from Fido's owner. The dog is not permitted to run loose about the ship, and may not be taken into Sa- looms or stAteroOms, but If the owner desires the company of his pet on deck for 6 part of the time each day the priv Ilege is usually granted, provided the dog Is kept closely al its masters side, and not allowed to disturb or annoy other passengers. whether bipsds or quAdrupsds.
 It is e matter of some difficulty to get . dog into England from this or any other country, owing 10 the restr1e- uons set forth in the importation of dogs order issued by the BritiAh board of agriculture two years ago. Before a dog is allowed to land from foreign port the owner must first obtain h. cense for the disembarkation from the secretary of the board of agriculture and must sign. or have an authorized aren't sign, an exhaustive statement about the animal. The statement in- cludea a full description of the dog, its breed, sex, age, color and marks. given for the purpose of Identification; the country from which it is proposed to be brought, the port at which it IS pro posed to be landed. the place to which 1t is proposed. after being landed, to be moved for such detention and isolation as may be required by the board, and also the route by which its to be moved to such place of detention or isolation. | That looks discouraging enough, but 1 there is more to come in filling out the application for the license to land the red tape-entangled dog. The owner must convince the secretary that he IS to have 8 permanent residence in Great | Britain, where the dog is to be kept An American who applied recently for a license told the writer that the board had refused to grant it because he had set forth in his statement that he in- | tended to make his home at hotel ID ! England, as he has done for many sum- mers. The hotel, the board of agricul- ture replied, was hardly within the | meaning of a permanent residence.
 As for the detention and isolation of the dog, the board has the authority to put Fido in quarantine (for that is what 1t amounts to practically for period of half year, if it is advisable, and that at the sole expense of the owner.
 Cats which go to Europe travel in the same class as dogs, S1O each, and are also looked after by the ships butcher. The fare for birds varies good deal with the different lines. One transatlantic company charges @ regular fare of S a cage for birds, and they have to be | left, like the dogs and cats, with that overburdened mortal the butcher. An | other line charges a certain rate which varies in proportion to the size of the cage or number of cubic feet which ii occupies. A third company makes nc charge for carrying bird, and permits | the owner to have it in his stateroom.
 Doga, cats and birds are frequently afflicted with sea sickness, and manifest the symptoms of the dread disease for all the world like their masters. Often | the birds succumb and die when two or three days out but the dogs and cats seldom show signs of the illness after the second day, and 1t is very unusual for one of them to die at see.-N. l. Sun