Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-09-01
Provision Is Now Made for Travel
ing Dogs, Cats and Birds.
Regular Fare Is ed for the AMI
mails and They Receive the Best
OF Care, But They Get
Sensick.

To take Il pet abroad generally in
-. .ANrn Inconvenience to both own
# a@d uui:Hui. but it is a practice which
is ~hrconilrg more common every ear.
Spec."I provision for travelling dogs,
cas- anI birds are now made by the
various steampship lines, and Il regular
rate OF charges for them is maintained.
The regular fare from New York TO
EsroIe for a dog of ordinary size and
requirements is S1U. This is the charge
nl;.de by all lines, but u Of them
den,2.l 80 luT Supplying pasSaEr and
hrst-claSs service to very large or I'M
portant members of the caniue world.
AS soon as the dog passenger arrives
on board he must be turned over to the
butcher. d fact which. were it o gen.
orally known, might open a new field to
the humorous paragrapher. or at least
~sustaiu hin in his oft-repeated face
tious to the dog AS ii food product. But
it is patent the butcher does not e
the couaic papers. for he makes no effort
10 reduce I'ido to sausage meat In
stead he takes entire charge Of him dur
ing TIL voyage, and keeps him well fed
and well housed in II ke"rel in the after
part OF the lower deck. ior which service
he expects. aud usually receives, a sub
staDtiai 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 II The owner
desires the company Of his pet on deck
for a part OF the time each day the priv
iiege IT. usually granted. provided the
dog is kept closely at its masters side.
and not allowed to disturb or annoy
other passengers, whether bipeds OF
quadrupeds.
1t is a matter of some difficulty to
get a dog into England from this or
any other country. owing to the r~estric-
tions set forth in the i'm Importation OF
dogs order issued by the British board
of agriculture two ears ago. Before a
dog is allowed to land from a foreign
port the owner must first Obtain a IL
cense tor 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, N, 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 Tor such detention and Isolation
as may be required by the board, and
also the route b. which it's to be moved
to such place 81 detention or isolation.
That looks disrouraging enough, but
there is more to come in filling out the
application for the license to land the
red ta~pe-entanglvd dog. The owner
must convince tie secretary that he IS
TO have a permanent residenee in Great
Britain, where thr dog is 10 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 al Il hotel in
! England. as he has done for many sum
mers, The hotel, The board of agricuI-
ture replied. was hardly within the
meaning OF u "pernanent residence"
AS Tor the detention and isolation of
the dog. the board has the authority TO
pat Fido in quarantine tfor that is what
it amoun to practically FOR a period
of half a year, il it is ndvisa bic, and that
at the sole expense OF the owner,
Cats which 60 to Europe travel in the
same class ns dogs. SO each, and are also
looked after By the ships butcher, The
fare for birds varies a good deal with
/ the different lines. One transatlantic
;,nnpans charges a regular fare of II
a rage FOR birds. and they have to be
left. like the dogs and cats. with that
oyerburdened mortal the butcher An
other line charges a certain rate which
carries in proportion to the size of the
cage or number Of cubic feet which i,
occupies. 4 third company makes nc
charge for carrying a bird, aud permits
The owner to have it in his stateroom.
Dogs. cats and birds are srsaucn:i,
afflicted viii, sea sickness. and manifest
the symptoms of the dread disease 70,
all the world like their masters. Otter
the birds srccnmb and die when w OF
three days out, hut the dogs and cat.
seldom show signs Of the illness afte1
the second day, and II is very unusua
for one Of them to die at sean. Y
Sun.