The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-13
ANIMALS WERE ABUSED BADLY
Finds Mule Kept in a Stall Sixteen
Months Till Hoofs Turn Up at
Ends Twelve Inches Stops
Chicken Fight.

Anyone who has the idea that nice,
proper, well behaved Kenosha has no
need Of a Kenosha Humane society,
has only to read the report of the agent
j. H. Karnes, for the past year to
promptly decide that good child though
it be ordinarily, it does need little
looking after.
He has stopped the abuse Of fifteen
children by cruel and neglectful par
ents; eighty-four over-worked and
abused horses were helped to better
conditions; nine horses unfit for work
were killed; three aged parents that
were neglected by their adult children
were looked after and the children
forced to treat them in more filial
manner; three husbands and wives
were made to desist from quarreling;
two abused cows were rescued; one
starving hog was looked after; owners
were made to stop abusing calves by
tying their legs; seventeen cruelty
treated dogs were rescued; seven dogs
were killed for reason; one chicken fight
was stopped; three song birds that were
shot had their deaths looked into;
one arrest was made; eight sick cats
were killed; one abused rabbit was
rescued; the attempt to have school
boys box at nickle show was stopped.
Must Not Abandon Pets
There are many other minor abuses
which Mr.. Karnes will work for the
abatement Of in the coming year.
+ Although he believes that it is bet
ter to educate than to prosecute COM
munities for ill doing, he hopes to see
that the state law making it statu
tory offense to abandon a cat or dog,
is made effective and to this end he
will watch out for offenders.
Other things which he says need at
tention and that in themselves seem
little yet give great discomfort, and
in some cases torture, to the animals
upon which they are practiced, include
neglect to water stock in hot days. He
has found stock left in pastures de-
pendent upon children to pump their
supply of water, and the children care
less and irresponsible sometimes for
getting to do it, and when they did
pump, not pumping enough SO that
any but the strongest of the cattle
were able to get their share.
Report Drivers to Owners.
He mentions the fact that certain
delivery wagon drivers are in the
habit Of jerking the head Of the horse
and in other ways mistreating it. Tt
can be easily stopped if people who
see this kind of abuse will call up the
owners Of the wagon and report. The
owners do not want the value of their
animals destroyed by these small
abuses which affect the general health
of the horse as well as often turning
a good into a bad disposition.
Mr.. Karnes is enthusiastic over the
proposed incorporation of the Kenosha
County Humane society and believes
it will enhance the influence and pow
er Of the organization to be known as
an incorporated organization, instead Of
working as heretofore as a branch of
the Wisconsin Humane society.
Offend in New Ways.
Mr.. Karnes says that new forms of
abuse are constantly making their APP
pearance in his work. Some specific
cases which have been called to his
attention within the year follow as he
himself tells them.
81 found a mule that had been left
in stable for sixteen months with
out having been taken out for exer-
else, his feet had grown so they
were twelve inches long and turned
up at the ends.
August sixteenth / found horse
terribly neglected, stabbed in a hen
house four by six feet, and so low
that its head could not be raised to a
natural position and fed nothing but
cabbage leaves.
"Three small children were left
alone in louise all day with poor
provision for food or fire while the
father was away at work The moth
er was dead. The help of the humane
society with the efforts of friends
and neighbors found suitable homes
for them -
This is the tenth annual report