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Show If VOLTAGE FOR f DOGSJN POUND ,i New Met&od of Estrays jj Considered. i To Kill Them by Electricity i'!t Is Thought to Be Wore Humana. I, jj iocal Ofllcial Corresponds With Those I of Many Other Cities Hegnrd- ' J ing- the Best Way, -, YOU must kill them, do it 1 willl0ut cruelty. Every animal J has a right to justice and protection protec-tion at the hands of the superior animal man who, ,if he kills, should do so for a purpose. That purpose is not helped by cruelty." Animal World Ilundredo of unlicensed dogs are killed In Salt Lake every year. The anclhod of killing, by bullet, Is not cn-. tlrcly satisfactory to Humane Officor IS. B. Mann, and with the object of having the canines destroyed In the most humane manner possible he Is investigating in-vestigating the various methods of destruction de-struction employed throughout the ( country. Voltage the Most Humane. I From Investigations thus far made J the humane officer lias about come to the conclusion that the use of electrle-j electrle-j ity Ib the most humane method. This II way is lavoreu uy ur. iieatty, president j of the State Humane society. High voltage terminates existence in the most speedy and humane manner, but still It has Its drawbacks. No method , j of applying the electrical current in an M effectual and safe and practicable man- I ner has yet been devised. For the pur- nose of Inventing a means of execution by electricity that would be applicable in all cases and sare to the execution Mr. Mann has interested S. A. Fenton, president of the Intennountain Electric company, in the matter, and they are now working upon it. ' Weekly Killing- of Dogs. From eight to fifteen unregistered I dogs are destroyed every week In this . city. The ordinances provide that "the j humane officer shall cause all im- pounded dogs, not redeemed within live i days, to be killed in the most humane ' 4 manner possible." The recognized I ' methods for killing the dogs are shoot s' ing, as practiced here, drowning, as- phyxlatlon nnd voltage. Mr. Mann, who has made inquiry in many cities of the United Stales, says there is no one 1 method in general favor. The secretury of the Ohio Humane society writes: "Shooting is without doubt the most humane method, but the executioner must certainly be a good marksman." 1 1, Different Methods Used. Tn Philadelphia the dogs are de- I slroyed by charboal fumeii, and in Bos ton by chloroform. James Kennedy, dog enumerator and public impounder of Kansas City, says: "We suffocate the dogs In a tight box with brimstone I or old roll sulphur powdered." The , Kansas City ordinances provide that t dogs shall be killed either by gas as- ' phyxlatlon or by drowning. - Santa Rosa, Cal., Is the only city that Mr. Mann lias found where electricity is employed as the death agent. There , the vagrant canines are given 2300 volts of electricity nnd die without howl or eoua, and this, of course, makes it the moat up-to-date method yet developed. , ( Some of the Drawbacks. The drawbacks to the electric meth-, meth-, od which Mr. Mann would overcome are the dangers risked In applying the 1 I current and the absence of a device that can be used In all cases. At Santa Rosa a metallic collar is placed around (, 1 the. neck of the doomed dog. The dis advantages of this are that the same collar will not lit every dog, and In case of a vicious dog cannot be safclv placed around the neck. Mr. Mann hopes to get around these . difficulties by the Invention of a chuto so constructed that the condemned canine may be started from the top and V come in contact with a heavy voltage or electricity before reaching the bottom. bot-tom. Experiments are now being made along this line. |