The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-13
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


When this column suggested that
dog fountains be placed about town,
either by the municipality or through
an unofficial medium, the suggestion
was received with some derision.
1t is therefore with considerable
satisfaction that the writer points to
the announcement in the news col
umns of the Palladium to the effect
that philanthropic citizen, who with
holds his namely modesty from the
public, has offered to build these foun-
tains at his expense.
1t is also interesting to know that
the order from the County Health Of
ficer compelling all owners of dogs to
muzzle them under certain conditions
is soon to be rescinded in accordance
with public sentiment and humanitar-
ian considerations.
So it is only a short time when
dogs-and cats as we'll for that matter
will be provided with public drink
ing places.
1t is frightful thing, these hot days,
to see dogs running round the streets
with their heads encased in wire Ca
ges, unable to lick their lips" as the
old time photographer used to say TO
his self-conscious victim, or to get a
drink
The whole dog agitation, however,
has brought before the public, and to
the owners of dogs, the responsible
ties of the latter.
1t is not enough just to buy a dog.
You've got to take care of it.
And take care of it properly. giving
1t the suitable thing to eat and drink
and in proper quantities and at stat
ed intervals. Also to see that it doesn t
annoy the neighbors by making a pa
background and resting place of their
lawns and yards.
Also to train it not to be a pest by
shrill barks, at everybody who ap-
proaches or walks past the house.
No person owning a dog has any
right to permit it to range the streets
and alleys making itself obnoxious to
other householders.
When people learn they should look
after their dogs and cats as they do
the other members or attaches of their
respective menages, the mad dog
scare may not recur with such frequ.
lency and virulence.
The bestowal of drinking fountains
for these animals by this unknown
benefactor is one of the most benef1-
cent of any of the city's recent phil
lanthropes.
The local humane society. which
had put forth tentative proposal that
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it's redit be used toward this end, al
though a substantial sum would have
had to have been added, can now turn
it's attention to other avenues of ex
penditure.
Although it is not generally known
it is true that under the present Met
ropolian law, the police Of the city
are authorized to look into and look
after all cases of cruelty to animals
wherever and whenever their attention
is called to the abuses or where they
are observed by themselves individ
ually.
Under this legal permit, the police
should have their attention directed tc
one of the commonest forms of cru
city to horses-the use of the check
rein.
Anywhere, as has been said here
more than once perhaps, and every
where you can see horses standing by
the hour, and sometimes by the day
with their heads pulled way out of nat
ural angle.
In cold weather suffering from the
cold
In hot weather, the metal bit chafine
their sensitive mouths.
No person, whether officially author
lied or not, should pass any horse by
so tortured without loosening the
rein.
1t is a consideration every individ
ual human owes every horse.
The other day the writer saw q
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A horse which had been standing
for long period of time with the hot