Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-05

preaching. Two-thirds of the year
has gone and the impending question
with it must be ''What of the merry
month of May?"
May, you will recall is the legal and
proper time when dogs are supposed
to be licensed by the city of Douglas
so that they may fare forth on June l
with that poetic jingle in memory
what is so rare as day in June?"
And on June 1, too, the dog catcher
is supposed to do little faring forth
with net in hand to gather all and
sundry CANNES which are found to be
upon the streets unlicensed and
Thereby without rights and contrary
to the peace and dignity of the city
and the laws and statutes made and
provided, ETC., ETC., and so forth-bov-
wow! just here may it be remarked,
consider the dog catcher!
Well, did you ever consider a dog
catcher? Seriously now, did you? He
i is entitled to be considered. He is
! human, first of ALL And he leads a
! dogs life when he isn't chasing one.
Sometimes he discovers dog that is
shrewder than dog catcher and that
! is when he cllases dogs life, for he
! gets nothing unless he gets the dog.
And going further into conSidera-
ton of the life of a dog catcher, the
history of some dog catchers in Doug
| las seems to prove that the life OF
dog catcher is hard one filled with
trials and tribulations and, like the
wind that bloweth where it hsteth,
their outcome is uncertain. One OF
them will not come out for some time
yet under a recent sentence pro-
nounced by the court at Tombstone
which placed the former dog catcher
1 in the human pound maintained by
/ the state for persons guilty OF offenses
contrary to the statutes.
But the dog catcher is only limb
of the law trying to carry out the
ordinances for the interests of oil, as
well as the dogs There are dogs in
Douglas that are dog derelicts, just as
there are human derelictS, and being
caught by a dog catcher would be a
favor to them. There are various
types of that class. There are dirty
dogs and hungry dogs and lonesome
dogs and otherwise neglected dogs TO
which a ride to the pound with the
poundmaster would not be mlstor-
tune.
Take first the hungry dogs. Life is
a struggle with them, at best. II they
are caught and taken to the pound.
they get at least two days feed and
4 oil the water they want, the company
of others that are fed and nothing TO
do but lick their chops and walt 1or
the next ration. Then, II they are
only derelicts in the dog world, they
! are led to the death house and exc
cuted along humane lines, without
suffering. So it might be said they
had happy death for they were
ushered into the happy hunt n
ground with full stomach and pleas
ant anticipations of more. To that
| tvpe of dog, a good dog catcher, ana
i a good dog pound, such as they keep
/ in Douglas, is a blessing and there is
( no need for disguise.
i Turn next to the dirty dog. Born
/ white. for example. dog does his
/ hest TO keep his coat looking present.
able but buffeted thither and yon n1
Z finds it impossible to do SO. he Is
compelled to sleep in the coal shed OF
! on the ground. is given nothing tnal
hints of attention in the form OF helr
TO remove some of the SCOT from MS
, coat. and because of his i'll and un~
kermit appearance, he is froWned upon
bv everybody, even his own m2Ster
He loses confidence in himself, be-
comes a pessimist on things In gen.
eraI and if it would do any gooo' h'