The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-05-19
CRUEL EXECUTION
OF DOGS At POUND
This is the tale of a dog.

This is the tale of a dog.
If you miss your pet dog any of
these hot days and are in doubt as to
whether he has Just strayed off to a
neighbours house or has been hypothe-
Gated by soldier IRON a transport.
1t would be well to take n trip over
to Iwilei where the city poundmaster
holds forth. for there you might come
across your dog. ~
If your dog has no license tag at
tached to his collar you may be sure
that the dog-catcher has lassoed him
with n wire, dumped him into crate
in wagon where he has the company
of dozen or score of other luckless
animals, and that he has been taken
to Iwilel and put into a patched-up
shack called the Pound" If your dog
Is a well bred beast and he mixes up
with lot of NANCY dogs gathered
In from back alleys, he will be a sorry
sight when you rescue him, that is if
you get him out of the poundmaster's
control before the end of three days.
Otherwise, your dogs soul will be
sent to the canine heaven by the bull
let route, and his carcass will be sold
to Hawaiians who will take him home,
skin him, and serve him up for the
family dinner. And thereby hangs a
tale.
The license for a dog, Is $11O per an
mum, with ten cents added asa penal
ty since March 81. making s1.20 all
told. If the dog catcher takes your
pet, and you are aware of 1t, you cam
get him out of the pound on payment
Of the sl.2O to police clerk at the
station house II you don't the poor
brute viii languish In the small shack,
the associate of all manner of dogs
and ours for three days, when the exc
cution takes place. And that execu-
ton is a crying shame.
1t is a heartless butchery, needless
and not in accord with the methods
employed by cities on the mainland to
dispose of unlicensed beasts for there
the dogs are placed in air boxes and
are killed with charcoal gas.
The shack Is a miserable affair. 1t
Is partitioned off into four sections,
the sides being boarded in, with
cracks between, and the top is made
Of Stats three inches apart. The en-
trance to the rooms is on the roof.
When a new dog is brought to the
shack, he is dropped into one parti-
ton. The next day he is shunted into
another room, and the third day to a
third room, the other rooms filing up
all the time with new arrivals. The
third day is his last and the execution
then takes place. The executioner
goes to the top of the shack armed
with a revolver. Thrusting the re-
volver down between the Stats he fires.
The shot may hit dog In the leg
whereupon the brute yelps and careens
about the place mad with pain and
fear The revolver is fired again and
may catch another dog in the head.
or the shoulder or tail. The execution
goes on merrily and there is lots OF
fun making targets out of the yelping,
fear stricken pack. Perhaps there may
be dozen dogs In the pen, and the
dog first hit may not receive another
shot until the rest are dead, or he
may be hit half dozen times before
he Is finally killed. 1t is cruel, heart
less way to get rid of somebody's pet.
One may believe his dog is at a neigh
boris place little dreaming that the
animal is being brutally killed.