The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-11
TAKING PETS ABROAD
Provision Is Now Made for Travel
ing Dogs, Cats and Birds.
Regular Fare Ii Cbarg d for the AMI
mafs and They Receive the Hest
of Care, Hut They Get
Seasick,

To take a pet abroad generally in
sures much inconvenience to both own
er and animal, but it is practice which
is becoming more common every year.
Special provision for travelling dogs,
cats and birds are now made by the
various steampship lines, and regular
rate of charges for them is maintained.
The regular fare from New York to
Europe for q dog of ordinary size and
requirements is $40. This is the charge
made by all lines, but some of them
demand $40 for supplying passage and
first-class service to very large or inn
portant members of the canine world.
AS soon as the dog passenger arrives
on board he must be turned over to the
butcher, fact which, were 1t more gen.
orally known, might open new field to
the humorous paragrapher, or at least
sustain him. in his oft-repeated face
tious to the dog as a food product. But
It 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
and well housed in kennel in the after
part of the lower deck, for which service
he expects, and usually receives, a 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
ilege is usually granted, provided the
dog is kept closely at it's masters side,
and not allowed to disturb or annoy
other passengers, whether bipeds or
quadrupeds.
It is a matter of some difficulty to
get a dog into England from this or
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 a
dog is allowed to land from 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 full description of the dog, it's
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 1t is pro-
posed to be landed, the place to which
it 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 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 |
red tape-entangled dog. The owner
must convince the secretary that he Is
to have permanent residence in Great
Britain, where the dog is to be kept.
An American who applied recently for
o 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 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
1t amounts to practically for period
of half a 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, $40 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 a regular fare of SIS
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 certain rate which
varies in proportion to the size of the
cage or number of cubic feet which 1t
occupies. A third company makes no
charge for carrying a bird, and permits
the owner to have 1t in his stateroom.
Dogs, cats and birds are frequently
afflicted with sea sickness, and manifest
the symptoms of the dread disease for b,
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 unusual :
for one of them to die at sean. Y. /,
Sun.