New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-09-08

dogs were found starving and crippled about
the streets OF the greater city by the sOctetys
working force
From the early days Of June until the present
time a constant and special activity IS called
for at the soctety's animal shelters In Manhat-
tan. Brooklyn and Staten Island and among It's
patrol force on account OF the hundreds OF
pets that being cast adrfft as houses are
closed for the vacation season Before these
panpered and resOurceless animals come to
starvation or torture In the Unaccustomed
wild life into which they are thrown every
effort Is made reach and care for them
until homes may be found TO receive them
or a painless end be put TO their suffertnss.
Often owners who are preparing 20 part COM
pany with their cat or dog have the goodness
to tell the society and let It take charge or
the animal direct; but more often they do noS
take this trouble and the society must
seek out the suffering pet in it's first aimless
and agOnized vandertngs During the month or
June this year 1851 such animals were re-
ceived and picked up by the A s. P. G. A.
workers. 6972 of these being taken from ths
streets OF Manhattan Island alone
Crippled, abused and on the verge OF starVa-
ton. many OF these stray pets managed 70 drag
along their life into early summer and WIN
those cast loose by the later closing OF ciey
houses, some 136S5 such cats and dogs were
rescued during July from the streets In a weak
and diving condition. In that month alone al
most ten thousand suffering animals Wera
reached by the socety'S forces IN Manhattan
Even in August the abandoned animal waits
of the streets this year numbered S.554. OF
which number over six thousand were FOUND
roaming Manhattan Island. Among these wers
found the fitteSt. Who managed 10 survive weeks
and even months OF pain and hunger under tns
feet of the street crowds
or the 32.I1S cats and dogs which have oeen
rescued from a lingering death on the pave
ments this summer. only comparatively few
were fit TO go back 70 lives Of ease. even with
the best care and veterinary treatment which
were given them the a 8 P G A shelters
Examination showed that more than three-quar-
ters Of them were hOpelessly crippled am
diseased by their vagrant experiences that the
only mercifuI 20 pursue was 20 end their
sufferngs by painless asphyxiStiOn- For the
few pets whose strength and health have nor
been frrevocabiv impaired the society has been
making efforts TO provide new homes
As MANY as four hundred calls in one day
nave been received at n s. ?. c. A headquar-
ters BY persons reporting the abandonment II a
net dog or cat. In every case the society has
managed to investigate at the earliest possible
moment though Il is often an impossible task
TO reach so many points throughout the greater
CITY in a week of the hardest kind OF work
The last season has been an eXacting one ror
the animal rescuers. and this branch of the so
cietv's work mas proved severe tax on its
forces and resources. On average some ,r5o
dogs and cats have been sought out every day
ard many hundreds fed. cared for or asphyxi-
ated at the same time Such work has re-
uuired the undivided time and attention or q
eoodlv number Of expert men. as well as OF
every wagon and shelter which the society pos
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