SheeDfarmers and Doga.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 637, 23 July 1891, Page 2

SheeDfarmers and Doga.

1 Kubi ” writes, in effect Dear Standard,—Captain Tucker and a few other worthies seemed to have lashed themselves into a state of exoitement over the fact that hitherto the Borough Council hasn’t been insane enough to require that when an owner registers a dog he should be compelled to repeat the process every time the animal breaks off the chain, or has his collar stolen, or when some other dog objects to his canine brother wearing a collar. If the Inspector shot a dog which he knew to be registered he would be guilty of a dishonest act, and there is no conceivable reason why he should danoa attendance on every owner of a dog because the animal had got off without its collar. There are people In town who are not rich aheeplarmers, but who have a certain little amount of property that Is proportionately of great value to them, and it would be monstrous if they were to pay a ruinous accumulated tax, or have their faithful watchdogs killed to suit men who would convert the Borough into a sheep run. If the Borough must be used as a sheep run, then let employment be given to a sufficient number of shepherds, instead of setting up a howl about dogs without collars on. If the Inspector shoots any dog which he knowi to be registered, the Councillors in authorising him to do so will be guilty of a wrong those who are not aheepfarmers ought not to allow to go unpunished. A dog that will kill sheep will not have his morals improved by the use of a collar, and when a dog is captured the sheepowner ought to have the trouble cast on himself to prove the owner. Borough taxpayers hive enough to bear without providing an Inspector to shepherd tbe stock of any individual,