Show Humane note We are Indebted to our City Fathers for following the ex example example example ex- ex ample of the enlightened and humane dog pounds of the state In the disposition of unwanted or stray dogs and cats Any unwanted dog or cat will be put to sleep In a humane manner at the Valley HI Animal Animal Animal Ani Ani- mal Hospital free of charge WARNING Do not try to transport cats by yourself The cat becomes frightened by the sound of a car With unusual sights and sounds the terrified animal will try to claw Its way to freedom and usually suc suc- It will then become another an another an- an other lost cat exposed to all the hazards of starvation and other dangers If you wish to dispose of a cat call the city and a police officer will calland call calland calland and transport the cat In a humane humane hu humane hu- hu mane cat carrier especially designed for this purpose It Is difficult to believe but there are still people among us who will take an unwanted cat cator cator cator or dog out somewhere and abandon It We jail a man for stealing a sheep but In the category of sin this is a mild offense compared with the iniquity ini iniquity Iniquity Ini- Ini of taking a helpless animal animal animal ani ani- mal out and abandoning it to starvation Within every block in Utah towns and cities clUes there are stray and starving cats that multiply and whose number finally reaches into the thousands thou thou- sands No animal in America is being subjected to the suffering sufferIng suffer suffer- ing the cat is undergoing Equally cruel are those who take cats into the swamp lands and abandon them soothing their consciences with the thought that cats can live Uve on mice Even if enough mice were available these are poor diet for cats What happens is that the cat which can produce produce produce pro pro- duce three litters Utters a year multiplies multi multi- plies To get food enough for her young she will also hunt for birds Many young quail 1 are brought In by mother cats to feed the young which also multiply and not finding enough mice will also hunt for birds Whose fault The people who abandon cats In case anyone feels like calling the cat cruel and hu humans humans humans hu- hu mans virtuous I commend them to the human slaughterhouse record in America and the u unnecessary un unnecessary un- un necessary torture that has been and still sUlI Is being visited on millions of ot helpless animals Also to t the e barbarous record of dog pounds or lack of them In the state Mate of Utah Rural pounds I if it any are usually filthy coop chicken affairs where animals animals animals ani ani- mals cower under the blaze of sun or scourge of blizzard Shockingly underfed Under- Under watered Maddened by thirst or agonized by cold Sometimes frozen to death This or to wander in winter starving and shivering or to be hauled into the hills and stand terrified by some town marshals marshal's marshals marshal's marshals marshal's mar mar- too often inaccurate bul bul- bul- bul let In all humanity we must re reduce reduce reduce re- re duce the cat population by humane means Dont Don't give fe female female female fe- fe male cats away Have them mercifully put to sleep or altered We dont don't escape the final and inevitable justice Remember Remember Remember ber President Joseph F. F Smiths Smith's warning He who is cruel to a poor dumb animal at that moment moment moment mo mo- ment disqualifies himself for forthe forthe forthe the companionship of the Holy Spirit GRACE JOHNSON |