The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-24
ASYLUM FOR
INSANE DOGS
New Jersey Gentlemen Keep
Regular Canine Mad House
STUDIES THE DISEASE
Visit to Cell of Patients in
Last Stages
STUDIES THE DISEASE

dog asylum, writes in the New York
World as follows:
Remember mad dogs do not froth at
the mouth.
Always turn out for a dog that refuses
TO turn out for you.
1t appears to me that the chances of our
being bitten by a rabid dog would be-
come very remote if the government and
press of the country would make a con-
centrated effort to prevent it.
We certainly receive a fair warning OF
its presence when our own dogs are af-
fected. If the press Will teach US to rec
ognize the disease in its incipient form
and the authorities will order the de-
struction of all homeless dogs and dogs
whose owners who do not care whether
they are mad or not the problem of les
lening the danger will be solved.
So far as l can see there is no other
way of giving immunity to men, women
and children. If the disease is allowed
TO reach its second stage, and the animal
gets loose on the street, the present dan
ger viii continue to exist.
| say without fear of contradiction that
there is not person, other than veterin-
arians or physicians, who Will be attract
ed by the actions of a really rabid dog
on the street.
We have been taught that a rabid dog
will run the streets frothing at the mouth,
biting and swapping at everything in the
way Unless We see a dog showing these
symptoms We are unconscious Of danger.
Now nothing could be further from the
facts, no more misleading than this popu
hoe "a effect.
Unsuspecting people expose themselves
90 the danger of rabid dogs and hun
dreds of harmless animals are ruthlessly
Slaughtered
A dog suffering with rabies in the sec
ond. and most dangerous. stage will move
along at a moderate trot. I never saw
one running. His tail will droop; his head
will be carried below the line of his body.
These symptoms will increase as the dis
ease progresses. But there is one thing
about him that is very noticeable-he is
not attracted by sounds and sights that
usually engage the attention Of a dog in
good health.
Should a mad dogs attention happen to
be attracted to anything It viii only be
for a moment. His mind seems to be pre-
occupied by his desire to find place to
rest.
His appearance would seem at first
glance to indicate that he has formed the
purpose of doing some particular thing
But the second he will be lying down.
seemingly uninterested in what is going
on about him.
If a dog approaches him he will snap
at it. But l have never known one to
follow up the attack.
His mouth will be dry and parched, so
much so that We feel he is suffering for
q drink of water. II he comes to
stream he may enter it and attempt to
satisfy his thirst. This is true of one dog
/ knew of that was positively suffering
with rabies. He walked along the bed OF
a stream for several hundred feet. The
water was nearly UP to his knees. He kept
on Tapping it up as he trotted along. lie
was shot before leaving the stream. II
was proved he had rabies by every meth
cd known TO science.
man dog will not get out or one s
way; therefore always get out of the way
of a dog that won't get out or your way
Let me now describe typical mad dog
at his home. suffering with the disease
in its first stage. We find him on the
lounge or mat, or may be held upon the
Ian Of one of the family, who will tell
us that the little fellow has seemed rest
less for a day or two. He used TO lie on
the lounge all night without moving. But
now he gets down and lies on the floor
for a while He will so into the other
room. then climb back Upon the lounge
In other ways he seems well enough. He
ate his breakfast and drank saucer Of
milk
His master or mistress thought he had
something in his throat Every little
while he would cough and seemed to be
irving TO dislodge the bone. He has
little sore on his leg or some part of his
hodv that seems 20 anoy him Crhe place
wnere he was bitten). He keeps rubbing
scratching or biting it ut times
Twenty-four hours later they VIII ten
u. that there is surely something the
matter with The dog He Is becoming
cross. He doesn't act like himself Fer
hans in the morning he seized hold OF the
dress of til little girl who had always
been his favorite in the family. Perhaps
a few hours later he jumped and caught
her by the arm. but let so again ana
walked away.
Now somebody notices that his eyes are
quite changed. They seem 10 have lost
that look OF intelligence. His gaze Is
vacant. The eyeballs present a CLASSY ap-
pearance.
1 have now furnished a very good his
tory of a case of rabies in its frst stage.
The poor animal has given the mem
eers of that family a fair and timely
warning that he IS about TO become
dangerous companion and has reached thu
point where he ands himself powerless
10 warn Us further Providence. however,
has provided FOR the protection Of his
orsners in This way-the poor dog at this
stage is reasonably sure 10 leave home
end BECOME source Of greater danger in
some other place.
J-p 20 this time the dog has been harm
less. I have never known an animal 10
bite any member of the family that owns
him during the first stage Of the disease
AN ASYLUM FOR DOGS.
The way in which dogs are treated fo-
insanity at the Montolair Asylum and
a history Of the cases under McDonoush's
care
An insane asylum for dogs2
why, certainly.
Dogs often go crazy. even as their own
ese do. So now The up-to-date COS csn