| Show What Our Readers Think Editors Editor's note Cont tutors to What Readers Think must sign their thir true Prue names and addresses although these will not be published if the writer requests Short letters will be given preference Has More Trouble With Children Than With Dogs Editor Telegram I have been greatly interested iri in the controversy over dogs Being a lover of animals my sympathy sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy is with them and I can overlook their faults These are usually a reflection of the kind of training which the owners give them Right now I am afraid I am going to make Hubert Finley awful sick The main purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose of having a dog is for a apet pet something pet something to love love and and a achild's achild's achild's childs child's humane education is usually given by owning a pet of some kind and being taught how to treat it The dog often shows his gratitude and loyalty by performing acts of rescue and when this occurs nothing on earth could separate that family from its pet One dog out of thousands bites through viciousness many family family family fam fam- ily dogs snap because they are teased and snapping napping is their only protection It is what the teaser deserves And hydrophobia bia is so rare among household pets that no alarm alarm- should be felt from small bites A healthy body and blood know how to counter counteract ct such injury Where one dog is starved and mistreated mistreated mistreated mis mis- treated in a family hundreds are loved and well taken care of I am in a position to know ow To Dogged Man I would say that the laws he lie suggests are unconstitutional besides which if enacted they would make malee a small hole in the city's income Equal rights allow one onea a dog another a garden g I Iha ha have ve both and my only trouble is with neighborhood children My garden is fenced but children children children chil chil- dren know no barriers To A Citizen I would say that humanity being a little higher than the animal animals should learn self-control self and self dis The writer has had to take herself in hand and learn not to hear what she does not want to hear My neighborhood is full of dogs and I am told they bark at night I never hear them To me nighttime is time for sleeping and I drop all worries and do just that You Citizen and others likewise bothered can do the same and thereby achieve a greater capacity capacity ca ca- for happiness and con con- You are only anticipating anticipating anticipating an an- your dog problem You have no proof that the dogs will destroy your garden so why not plant it and trust it to nature and God I fear your statement about your front yard yardis is greatly exaggerated I own owna a dog and there are many places left for me to step on in mine Hopeful Dog Owner Agrees Dogs In S. S L. L Are Nuisance Editor Telegram As a dog owner I have been reading with considerable interest your articles articles articles arti arti- cles by various readers regarding regarding regarding regard regard- ing the dog problem in Salt Lake City There is no doubt but that dogs in this city constitute a nuisance and are Injurious not only to peoples people's yards but also alsoto alsoto alsoto to peoples people's nerves but this could easily be remedied by two t simple simple simple sim sim- steps The first and main one is to have a more rigid up check on dog owners when license buy buy- ij J- J ing time comes Of all the dogs that I see around town to by far the larger proportion do not have license tags and therefore should be picked up and taken to the pound where they could either be claimed sold or de de- de- de It is most obvious that thata a good many dogs belong to people who have no interest in their welfare and have no business business busi busi- ness claiming ownership of one Dogs who belong to owners O of this type are scavengers and are potentially d dangerous a n g e era r o u s sand and should be picked up by the pound By cracking down on dog owners who do not or will not buy licenses and picking up dogs that are not wearing a tag a a. good many dogs would either find decent homes or could be humanely destroyed either of which would be a far better fate than eating out of garbage cans getting hit and finally turning into a mean and vicious tramp Along this line I can say that I have lived here going on three years and have yet to see the pound wagon on the job The sec second md step would be to have a law enacted and enforced requiring all dog owners to have their dogs on their own premises by 9 p. p m. m and requiring them to keep their dogs there until the next morning This would eliminate eliminate eliminate elim elim- all the barking that goes goeson on by dogs that roam other peoples peoples peoples peo peo- ples yards and scare people walking on the sidewalks at nl night ht For a city as large as Salt Lake there is no excuse for being as lax in correcting a a. situation where there is more than just cause for complaint I N. N W. W Crandall |
