Arizona republican., 1913-07-13
CANNING AFTER
 THE EDOGCATCHER
Says Employment of Bull dog to Worry Other Canincs is Far from Iiu- mane and Urges Discon- tinuance of Practice

Humane Officer J. w. Canning Ob-
 jects to the dogcatchcr employing a
 bull dog as a decoy and he told Chief
 of Police A. J. Moore so yesterday. Chief Moore admitted that there were
 unpleasant features in connection
 with the use of a bull dog in effecting
 the capture of untagged canines. but
 he said, for that matter, the entire
 business of capturing and executing
 dogs whose owners refused or neg
 lected to secure license tags for them,
 was not calculated to increase any
 mans peace of mind. But he didn't
 see how he was to carry on the work effectively unless some strategy was
 employed, even if that strategy was not strictly genteel and humanf-
 tarian.
 Now Canning is out with the an nouncement that the entire proceed ing must stop and that he iS going tu
 camp on the trail of tine dogcatchcr in order to see that the practice is
 discontinued. He said that he was prepared to take most any sort of drastic steps in seeing that only such means as he believes humane shall be employed in capturing dogs
 He hardly thought he would be com Tcllcd to shoot the dorcatcher's
 pet" but he said that hc would at least see that the animal was here after muzzled, on the grounds that it was vicious dog
 It seemed like news to the chief yesterday to learn that the dog catcher had been indulging in a prac- ticc that might be considered inhu- manc Of course. he knew that tho bulldog was being taken along on the wagon and that his presence in the vicinity of the wagon had a ten doncy to draw other dogs from their places of copceaIment and thereby made their capture easier. But he professed Ignorance of the charge made by Canning that the big dog was being "sickcd' into other dogs. grabbing them in his jaws and wor- ryine them until tho Mexican OF the wagon or the officer on the bicycle arrived and adjusted d moose about th" Captivc's neck
 Before the conference between Moore and Canning was at an end. the latter had made it pretty clearly uudcrstood that the doGcatchcr of the tutur" in Phoenix might be permit ted to employ ropes. nets or other contriVanceS, but a bulldog. never !
 | doCcatcher was at all necessary and l that the matter of superfluous dogs ! might easily be gotten at through i other means.
 According to Canning. he has re- r"iVcd information that the wagon | by the dogcatcher makes a practice of going about town with | q large white and black bull dog of . 1n uncertain disposition. His charac- i ter, Canning says, is written on his every feature. There is the square law, the protruding teeth and the broad shoulders of the pit animal II Is the kind of a dog which will make the average "fancicr" turn and take l second look. He is the kind. which most persons would he willing to ad- mt ought to be able to lick his weight in wildcats
 Now, according to the humane of icer. this dog is Ioosed when a fu- 5itive cur is inaccessible and the ringing dog, be lie mongrei or thor 'ughbred, pet or tramp, is grasped II 'ctWeen the teeth of this bis brute nd dragged out into the open. Some ines the shake the bulldog gives $ sufficient to render the victim un- and invariably is enough to aile all the fight out of him and in identally add fifty cents to the dog atchcrs remuneration. This is far rom humane, thinks Canning.
 Chief Moore having had the matter brought to his attention is pursuing n investigation. He is no more de- ir@us of countenacLng inhumanity han Canning is willing to permit h. Cannins's charges are true, the hief will join hands with him in batting the practice and seeing that 1ore humane methods are adopted in ] he future work of the dogcatcher