The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1899-07-12
PROVIDE FOR PETS
Dogs, Cats and birds Are Vow Ac
ccmmodnted ON the
90 Steamships.

To take a pet abroad generally in.
sures much inconvenience to both own
er and animal, but il is practice which
is becoming more common every year.
Special provision for travelling dogs,
cats and birds are now made by the
various steamship lines, and a regular
rate of charges for them is maintained.
The regular fare from New York to
Europe for a dog of ordinary size and
requirements is $40. This is the charge
made by al lines, but some of them
demand $50 for supplying passage ard
first-class service to very large or I'M
portant members of the canine wcrld.
As soon as the dog passenger arrives
on board he must be turned over to the
butcher. fact which, were ii more gen
orally known, might open new field to
the humorous paragrapher, or at least
sustain him i'm his oft-repeated face
tious to the dog as food product. But
n is patent the butcher does not read
the comic papers, for he makes no effort
to reduce Fido to sausage meat. In
stead he takes entire charge of him dur
ing the voyage. and keeps him well fed
md well housed in kennel in the after
part of the lower deck. for which service
he 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 part of the time each day the priv.
ilcge is usually granted, provided the
dog is kept closely at its masters side
and not allowed to disturb or annoy
other passengers, whether bipc'ls OF
| quadrupeds.
1t is a matter of some difficulty &c
get dog into England from this OF
any other country, owing TO the restric-
tions set forth in the importation OF
dogs order issued by the British board
| of agriculture two years ago. Before n
dog is allowed TO land from a foreign
| port the owner must first obtain Ii
| cense for the Decentralization from the
| secretary of the board of agriculture
and must sign, or have an authorized
agent sign, an exhaustive statement
about the animal. The statement in
cludes 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
it is proposed, after being landed, to be
moved ior such detention and isolation
as may be required by the board, and
also the route by which it is to be moved
to such place of detention or isolation.
| That looks discouraging enough, but
there is more to come in filling out the
application for the license to land the
ced tape-entangled dog. The owner
| must convince the secretary that he is
10 have 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 ta+ament that he in
| tended to make his LONE at hotel in
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
it amounts to practically for period
of half year, if ii is advisable, and that
at the sole expense of the owner.
Cats which go to Europe travel in the
same class as dogs, $40 each, and are also
looked after by the ships butcher. The
fare for birds varies a good deal with
the different lines. One transatlantic
company charges a regular fare of IS
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 it
occupies. A third company makes no
charge for carrying bird. and permits
the owner to have it in his stateroorl.
Dogs. 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 it is very unus Ial
| for one of them to die at sea.-N. Y.
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