New-York tribune., 1900-09-15
ANIMALS AS PATIENTS.
MANY VICTIMS OF THE HOT WEATHER
DOG WITH THE TOOTHACHE-AN UN-
SENTIMENTAL MANS VIEWS.

Household pets have suffered from the intense
heat OF the last few weeks as well as city bound
humans \ woman who depends for her income
upon caring for birds during the absence Of their
owners from their city homes had most unfortu-
nate experience with her feathered boarders this
season. During the hot weather IN August a large
number Of the canaTies dropped from their perches
after the other, and died. A nightingale which
was one OF the transients survived This fellow
rivalle1 all the apartment house musicians by fill
ing only the house, but the neighborhood. with
ulremtting strains Of music from dewy eve until
morn every night, until his auditors grew wearied
with even such transcendent melody. and hoped
vainy that the weather would prove too much for
his health and take him of. it had his COM
panions
At the hospital OF the Newly ork- American Vel
Urinary College. one OF the schools OF the New
York University, at No III West Fifty-fourth-st.,
patients viii soon begin TO arrive from summer
resorts These VIII be, in most cases, dogs that
have been surfeited with the fat Of the land"
during the summer, and paying the penalty IN
human-like aches and pains.
Too much food and little exercise cause most
OF the trouble with dogs, said one Of the doctors
yes;erday. One meal q day he declared, was all
that any grown dog needed, and the dining room
should be barred to them from the first. Cats will
seldom oTereat. but q dog never knows when K
has had enough. II Will eat its own dinner visit
around the dining room table taking tidbits from
and another Of the family. and then viii finish
the cats dinner, If II gets chance. This, stated
the doctor, is all wrong No one except its regular
caretaker should ever be allowed to feed It, and
il should have regular and hard exercise every
day The latter is too often neglected. One is too
tired 70 take the dog out, the weather is incIement
OF there IS company, and the fact that the con-
sutuionaI Is not q mere sentiment, but g matter
Of health and even life to the dog, is forgotten
Dogs suffer from distemper more than any other
eilment-
Considering the number Of dogs that fall victims
to hydrophobla scares, few have the disease-about
one really developing It to a thousand that are
killed suspects.
hospital recenty. man took a dog there that
ne was sure had rabies. The animal, he said, had
acted queer for than week and
gone about with one side Of its mouth open and its
be brought il he had tried to get IT to play and
me Cog mad bitten him. OF course the man was
frightened and had mad the wound cauterized- 4
moments examination of the dogs mouth showed
thai wire had been caught between two Of its
one Of them. No wonder Il was melancholy and
goss What would the average human have been
Under the same circumstances What Trimmings
r the population there would be II human sufferers
with toothache who show melancholy and irritable
he funny part OF that story was that the dogs
But dog died ir the hospital Of rabies several
months ago The dogs master brought 1t there,
expecting carboic acIc poison because Of the con-
Tie doctors as Taieg and carboic acid AFFECT the
;noutA soa lsrynx similarly: The animal oie1 CT
two rabbits were innocuIated with bacu from the
sogs brain, and in twenty-one days both were
oeao with the same disease.
mysteries when their pets die; Sometimes they tie
ag% ribbons about their necks; lire the boxes IN
,SAIcA taey are buried with silk, kiss them end
Il was sad at the hospital that horses are the
[actable, and in most cases seem TO understand
usually refuse their medicine for the frst two or
'Ihfee days after arriving there but afterward
taat they are among friends: Cats are the worst
- an and resist all efforts for their relief to the