Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-19
SMUGGLING DOGS
BY AEROPLANE
Various Means Owners of
Pets Take to Beat Eng
Iish Quarantine.
From Pearson's Weekly.

From Pearson's Weekly
Smuggling dogs into England from
abroad is now quite recognized in
dustry and well oreanized, remarked a
customs officer at Dover the other day
There are men at Calais, Dieppe and
other continental ports who will guar
antee to get any dog across the channel
and deliver him to any place in England
that may be agreed upon.
Their charges range high, from EGO
to ESQ, according to the size and breed
of the animal, but wealthy dog lovers do
not mind paying generously in order to
spare their pets the ignOminy of having
to undergo three months quarantine
and themselves the discomfort of being
separated from them during all that long
period
OF course, there are also people who
try to smuggle their dogs across ION
and l may say that they very rarely
succeed.
The big muffs now so popular are
the usual receptacles for small toy doss.
aroused by the exceedingly careful way
we'll dressed lady passenger was
carrying one of these down the gang
way from one of the channel mail
steamers Pretending to stumble,
grabbed the muff fairly hard and, as
expected, a yelp was emitted from in
side. The lady dog smuggler had to pay
about 95 fine and costs, and her pet
went into quarantine after all.
In the Bottom of Big Trunk.
Toy bulls are the easiest dogs to
smuggle, because they never bark. We
once found one of this particular breed
at the bottom of a big Saratoga trunk
beneath pile of costly dresses 1t had
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prolonged confinement-in fact it was
half-suffocated; yet it never uttered a
sound.
On another occasion the lid of card
board box which was supposed to con-
tain assorted French chocolates
started bullying upward in a strange
manner. On taking it off there emerged
to view one of the smallest black
three pounds, and was valued by its
owner at 500 guineas.
Actors and actresses are among the
most persistent sinners IN the matter of
dog smuggling. They run over 10 Paris.
or Vienna or wherever il may be. in
order to. fulfill professional engage
ment, and thoughtlessly take their pets
with them, ignoring of forgetting the
regulations as to quarantine on read
mission to the United Kingdom.
Wealthy society women, too, not in
frequently suffer from similar lapses of
memory. 1t is people of this type who
patroniZe the professional dog smugl
glers alluded to above Many Of them
don't mind what they pay.
A Tug for a st. Bernard
One high born lady mad her Great Dane
brought over by aeroplane at cost of
10, This method of lodging the
customs authorities was a fairly safe
one at the time, for the new regulations
governing the arrival of airmen from
abroad were not then in force but it
by no means follows that it is going
to work equally well in the future
Another valuable dog. IA ST. Bernard
was recently smuggled over in tug that
had been specially chartered for the
purpose. The owner of the animal met
the captain by arrangement off the Es-
sex coast, Just outside the three-mile
limit, and transferred it to his private
speed into one of the many sheltered
creeks that abound in the estuary of
the Thames. We heard all about il soon
afterward. but we could do nothing. as
SPECIFIC proof was lacking.
Such methods, however. are too costly
for any but very wealthy people. The
usual plan, and one very difficult to
circumyent, is for the dog to be intrust-
ed to the care of some member of the
crew of one of the many small foreign
vessels that trade to this country with
agricultural produce-onions, potatoes
and such like.
The animal is allowed to range the
deck quite freely on arrival. no secret
being made of its presence on board.
But one night IL is missing 1t has been
struggled on shore and handed over to
the owner or his agent by the sailor
who had temporary charge of it. and
VINO receives for his trouble a sum equal
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