Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-09
HARD WORK.

American tourists who may desire to
take pet dogs to England this summer
Will have to plan for their four-footed
companions weeks in advance. The
British government, through the board
OF agriculture, has recently begun to en-
tOice Its regulations against the admis-
Sion of ogs with unprecedented strict
ness, and in the future he who expects to
take a dog into England win have to be
a combined statesman. diplomat, traffic
expert, veterinary specialist and author
Ity on canine pedigrees.
A license must be obtained from the
BOARD of agriculture in London, or the
dog VIII be deported or perhaps forfeit
ed and killed. The license must in gen
eral be obtained beforehand by mail. and
Vne application for it must show that
the dog is being aiken to England either
1eT breeding purposes or for permanent
residence there. The dogs pedigree and
physical condition, past and nresant
must De described at length.
Inc British government e%nforces these
salngen measures tn order to keep
tDoles out OF England. At the Amer!-
can Lin offices in this city it was said
yesterday THAI only three dogs had heen
sent to England ON American Line boats
Within a year. and ait other stea or
noes similar stories We're told. 1t is easy
no take a dog to the continent, but &
takes an Al dog to get into John Buu's
lbailiWick.
Dogs ohsave always had hard roads to
travel. and they are getting harder.
Me CIV . ,one expression ITO lead a dogs
h1e: They must travel, to some extent.
and they do travel. but 1T is sorelv
against the will of all sorts of common
carriers. Some kindly legislative body
ought to lake pity on them and decide
legislature decided bicycles were. and
therefore should be carried free. The
British board of agriculture, in it's fatu-
GUS determination to extrtcate rabies.
seems quite to overlook the Inherent
right of any pet dog to enter any free
country. 1t feHgets What suffering It ia
causing to hundreds of dogs, in sepa1eat-
ing them from their mistresses, and It
views with stony eyes and fearless hear.
the agony OF countless women whom It
also keeps out of England or else parts
from their blanket-encompassed, plum
c~alee-stuffed, yapping little beasts.
Perhaps England is doing. this as q
atrdy revenge for American protection,
but England need not think that Amer
lea cares. Dogs have their roubles in
America, too. On railways that reach a
long way it has generally been decided
that they may travel in the baggage car.
Their necessity is recognized, and there
is a place and there is a price provided
for them, while some animals are still
unbiased, or We're at the time of the
celebrated soiloquy of the express agent,
who said: Dogs is dogs. and cats il
cats, and monkeys is dogs, but turtles
is insects"
1t is easier. indeed. for a dog to go
/ from New York to Chicago than for him
to go from the Battery to T~wenty-third
street, because the rule Of the street
! cars Is against dogs. They are seen now
and then in the cars, hidden In baskets
or snotl,ered In c1oaks, but II the con-
| ductor does not happen to be good hu-
mored enough to break the rules they
cannot ride.
There are extremely neat baskets
made for them for longer journeys. They
| will cover a dog all up except his head.
and when the conductor comes through
they will cover even that, and the only
| danger is of the dogs barking. and che
consequent wrath Of the conductor .T
complaints of the passengers. No doubt
a good hearty, honest, healthy dog would
! prefer the baggage car anyway, but pets
want to be pets and 1t hurts their feel
| ings to be excluded from a parior car or
from England. Their bark will not be
on the sea any more, unless they pass
by England altogether and go to France.
where they nave two cases of rabies q
| day in the very capital and do not care.
| But they rave one cOmfOrt-they are
| counted in the same elias with spirits.
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