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National Canine Defence League.— No. 326.

AN APPEAL FOR
MERCY FOR DOGS.

The National Canine Defence League makes an earnest
appeal on behalf of the unfortunate dogs, who are, by many
callous, heartless and most cruel owners, drowned, poisoned or
turned adrift when the annual licence becomes due. Could any-
thing be more atrociously inhuman ? To keep a dog, perhaps
first as a little puppy, to accept his love and devotion, to take
what pleasure his companionship gives, and then, in order to
avoid payment of a few shillings, to give him a cruel death, or
cast him out, without food, without shelter in the cold winter
months, to starve, to endure unspeakable prolonged suffering and
misery, and to die uncared for, unpitied and alone ; or to become
the victim of unimaginable torture in the vivisector's laboratory ?

A homeless dog is one of the saddest creatures and one of the
saddest sights on earth. He is hungry, thirsty, tired, cold, possibly
ill ; he looks up with pitiful, imploring eyes into the faces of
those who seem to him kindly, but usually his timid appeal meets
with no response or with harsh rebuff; he is pushed roughly
away, driven from each door which he vainly hoped might open
to admit him to comfort, warmth, food, life and love. When
his day of hunger, terror and utter despair and wretchedness is
over, where can he lie down to sleep in the long, bitterly cold
night ? On some doorstep or in some gateway, to be cruelly
ejected, without so much as a crust to lessen his fainting hunger
in the morning. Poor waif ; for no fault of his, every man's

hand is against him. How can he procure even a little food ?
If in a town, by picking up scraps where he may find them, filthy
garbage, which fills him with horrible disease ; if in the country,
possibly by poaching, when he is shot or caught in a trap. Poor
faithful, loving-hearted dog, he has done nothing to deserve
the terrible fate to which the master whom he loved and trusted
has consigned him.

People who own dogs, well knowing that they intend at
licensing time to turn them out thus, have no right to possess
them at all. To keep a dog with this intention is deliberate,
wanton cruelty of the grossest description. Those who are
really unable to pay the licence should either give or sell their
dogs to good and happy homes, or take them to the Dogs' Homes,
or to a Veterinary Surgeon, where they will be mercifully
destroyed. This is surely the very least return for a dog's limitless,
true-hearted affection, and is a manifest and bounden duty.

To turn horses or cattle out without food or shelter is very
rightly held as a punishable offence ; why then should similar
justice be denied to dogs ? Why should they be thus treated,
and the inhuman brutes who perpetrate this ruthless cruelty go
scot free ?

In the name of Christ the Merciful, we plead for the poor
dogs who cannot plead for themselves.

C. A. M. BAILEY,
Hon. Secretary,
January, 1909. National Canine Defence League.

Leaflets and all information can he had gratis of

BENJN. BRYAN, Secretary,
. NATIONAL CANINE DEFENCE LEAGUE,

27, Regent Street, London, S.W.

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