Show Granfield Cranfield Says Dog Tax C Colle Collector tor Is Mis Mistaken taken To the Sporting Editor Salt Lake Telegram Dear Sir Through your valuable columns I wish to call can the attention of ot the dog fanciers of ot this city to the astounding and nonsensical remarks passed by Josi the dog tax collector at the last meeting held by the board of at city com coni missioners Josi Josl told the board that thata did not shed a II a great number of ot dogs their heir puppy teeth until they were from tram twelve welve to fifteen months old and thereby there there- by y It was very ery hard for tor anyone to tell 1 the he difference between a n. dog of at five o I months old and fifteen months old which only demonstrates tho the Ignorance i of ot our dog tax collector on the ages of ot dogs It Is well known by all breeders and veterinaries that puppies shed their sucking teeth around four and a half hall months old and many breeds used for hunting bear coyotes and wild cats are able to tackle and hold their game I when nine and ten months old This would be an Impossibility with only their heir sucking teeth which commence I to o get loose and fall out before they ale aio six months old but the part that 1 seemed to hurt Josi Josl and the board of ot I commissioners so hard was that th they y would lose too much r revenue by doing what every other state In the union does namely not to tax a puppy until It t is five or or six months month old I wish to point out to Josi Josl and others that a dog attains Its full growth when twelve months old The dog tax collector knows a boy becomes become of age when he Is twenty one and I would like Ike to ask Josi Josl If it he ever er saw a man with his baby teeth The same ap applies applies applies ap- ap plies to dog If It Mr Josi Josl c can cn n prove that hat dogs at twelve months old still retain their puppy teeth I will donate 50 to the Humane Society of ot Salt Lake ake City Mr Josl Josi also told the board that he e saw no reason why Salt Lake City should hould do as all an other cities do namely namely namey name- name ly y By not taxing tating puppies until they are re five or six months old Hundreds or of f puppies die from distemper and teethIng and as I have pointed out before It is almost an Impossibility to say which pup In a litter Is la best until it t Is five or six months old Therefore breeders might destroy or sell sen a pup pupa ata a very low figure that may turn turnout turnout turnout out to be worth hundreds of dollars danaIs just because of ot the imposed dog tax on every puppy that Is born Also wish to point out that In hundreds hun hun- o of cases puppies are still nursIng nurs- nurs hog Ing ng their mother when two months old and yet the board of ot commissioners I Insist on on n dog fanciers paying the tax on puppies that are just commencing to o crawl So for the edification of the do dog tax ax collector concerning how to tell tHI the he ages of ot puppies under six months month of ot age e the following should help him himin himin in n his vocation Dogs like most other mammals have t. t two to a sets tete of ot teeth the first are temporary there are twenty- twenty eight tight In number The second set are permanent and therefore re not deciduous They are two forty-two and sometimes four forty-four in number The milk mUle teeth nr ore are smaller softer sotter and more pointed than the permanent ones and they are not situated so closely together The tusks two are slight pink in color Just above the neck which Is not the case with the second ones once The de deciduous deciduous de de- teeth are much softer than the second ones and when a puppy is three months old the points r-f r f f the tusks in incisors In- In are worn off oft When a 3 puppy Is la about three and one one half half or four months old the Ute upper incisor nippers are loose loosa and sometimes have fallen tallen out and the permanent ones are just coming comin through the gums gams at this part At the same time timeS the fourth upper molar which Is fourth from the tusk makes Its appearance By Bv the tho time puppies touch ouch as St. St Bernards Mastiffs Setters end and others of similar size ate are about four and a half halt months old the process of cf dentition Is complete Fox terriers and other dogs of ot this size are In some cases a fortnight later Tours Yours very truly trub GEORGE A. A CRANFIELD 1484 South Tenth East City |