New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-07
FATE OF STRAY DOGS.
THE OLD FASHIONED POUND" ABoL-
IsHED FROM THE MODERN HOME"
ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE COMFORT
OF LOST ANTMALs-MERCIFUL DEATH
PROVIDED FOR THEM

remarkable change in public sentiment regard
ing animals has taken place in the last half of the
nineteenth century. There hospitals for
the sick, homes for the aged, and refugees for the
lost. Official dignity of the highest degree has
been conferred upon the profession of veterinary
medicine and surgery by its Incorporation into the
curricula of the great universities of Harvard.
Pennsylvania and New-York.
All these universities have hospitals for sick ami
mails important part of the veterinarian
course. and there the pets of the poor treated
gratuitously and the pets of the rich for fee as
in any other grades of hospitals. cab may be
sent for injured dog in the fashionable district
and a wheelbarrow for in the tenement house
quarter, but in the hospital the pets receive
the same care and attention.
One feature of the hospitals for animals not
practised in those for humanity is the chloroform-
ing of patients too badly injured to recover or of
those suffering from hopeless disease.
The newest development of sentiment for animals
is the establishment last year of a cemetery for
deceased res, 10 acres of land having been pur-
chased for that purpose a beautiful slope
CoXsackie Station the Hudson.
There is in Bombay a hospital for animals, estab-
lshed nearly twenty centuries ago.
1t is sign Of the times that last year
ciety formed in New-York to educate children
to be kind to animals. Societies for the prevention
Of cruelty to animals exist in every State, almost
IN every county in the Union
Many of the large cities have established shelters
for lost animals, aboshing the old fashioned
pound where cruelty was the rule. New-York
has built at Observation-Disclosures cond-st. and
East River, which is provided with every
mediation for the comfort of animals and, when
necessary. their humane destruction. San Fran
cisco has a similar building.
The method of treating unclaimed animals In the
San Francisco Animals Home, it is named. is
similar TO that in use elsewhere, and is thus de-
scribed by a writer in 1.-The Chronicle:
Floors of cement and the elevated benches
dtc iItSieu WIN straw, "ilere the anl1nalS can
communicating with the kennel is pushed
back and the prisoners always eagerly watching
home tumble over each other in their easerness
to climb through the opening. Another transfer
takes place, and they pass into the third kennel
the condemned cell. Here there is an opening into
the yard closed with sliding panel of wire mesh.
and at this peephole into the outside world they
cluster at all hours of the day, dreaming mayhap,
Of what it would mean to once more the
pavements or green hillside. This very hope makes
the carrying out of their death sentence easy.
dogs remaining unclaimed the wire easement
opened. They do not wait to whittier the
small alright car. the doors of which close upon
them. The car then slides across a narrow alley
into sim another tight box into which two large
the gas pours into the ear in great volume and
merciful sleep steals over the startled little COM
pany. When the cage is full life is often extinct
few dogs the action of the gas is slower, and it
sometimes requires three and one-half minutes 10
accomplish the task.
Happily, all of the prisoners enter the car
of fate. Every dog in sound health that shows
good breeding, every dog that is handsome, every
dog that evinces more than common intelligence,
every dog that might be useful to hunter that
shows signs of special training, is put in the sale
loss. the animals selected for this purpose being
offered the impartial price of So a head.
Cats are AIRED for in the same way.