The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-06-24
DOGS WORRY
POLICE INTO ePAsMS
Charles See, the Genial Dog
Editor Losing Flesh An
swering Phone Calls.
JUST OBEYING THEIR ORDERS
Hammond Police Will Be Glad When
the Doy Days Are Over
Annie Dear.

SINCE the wholesale shooting of dogs
mas oeen going on In Hammond De.k
Sarseant Charles See has been svvor,na<s
Win Telephone calls from anxious own
CTS oA CANNES who want to know yxbat
sheS must do to keep their pets from,
being shot.
- nave the teenfest. vveeniesf. rt+<y.
dog with ears just like n rabbit. .n4a
one woman. "It wouldn't bite arr
Oody and there isn't policeman h.,ss-
nearteo enough to kill my dog. ia
there9" -
Cnariey was compelled to admit that
tne average policeman was rather n
heehngiess individual and that thera
was nothing they liked better than to
." out and XIII few ateenfe, weenfa,
ooss gust TO get uD an appetite for
breakfast.
Couldn't Get One Small Enough.
Ii was not five minutes before the
same woman called up again and said
MY dog is so small that I can't eet
a muzzle small enough for him. what
am I going to dor
Charley then advised her to get a
muzzle for an ordinary sized dog. nnt
her dogs feet through the wires and
let him runabout as an animated bird
cage
IN few minutes a man called up
and asked IL there would be anv danger
OF his dogs being shot as long as he
was tied up in the woodshed. Charley
was able to assure him that there was
not the slightest danger.
Another woman called I'D and said
that she had the cutest little pug dog
whic never went out of the house. She
said that 1t was a nice clean little
pup and that she bathed it every dav
II my dog should happen to get out
of the house you wouldn't have any Of
your men shoot him, would you?"
Would Keep Man ON Guard.
See said that he did not think Chief
Rlmbach would keep a man watching
on the outside Of the house waiting for
that dog to come out but he warned her
that If policeman should see the dog
without muzzle 1t would Certainly
be shot
"Oh." said the woman with an ex-
clamation of terror, and it presumed that
she went right down town and bought
the dearest little muzzle there was in |
the store
And there were some owners of dogs
IN Hammond a day or two ago, after
the police killed bakers dozen of them
between six and seven o'clock in the
who were madder than any |
ca nine with a well developed case of |
rabies.
The police department was cussed |
rs though 1T was to blame for the
whole campaign against dogs notwitb- |
standing the fact that had it not car
ried out the orders of the mayor and
some little child had been infested with
1ydophobia the department. would have
been held responsible for the lax en-
-orcement of the law
Most of the policemen have dogs of
heir own and some of them are as
oath to kill canine pet as though
hey owned 1T themselves but thew
lave received their orders and thew are
ioing as they have been directed.
only the other day after warning a
nan who lives in close proximity to
he police station that he would have
o muzzle his dog. The animal was
ound running without a muzzIe and
ad to be shot The owner of the doc
vas irate but he wasted all of his
hoice expletives on the department. for
he act would probably be repeated If
he occasion arose again.