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Show DOGS BECOME A NUISANCE Staten Island Mads a Dumping Ground by Its Big Neighbor, New York City. Staten Island, N. T., Is notorious as a refuge for stray dogs. The borough across the bay is overrun with homeless home-less curs of all sizes, ages and descriptions, descrip-tions, and the policemen are kept busy shooting them up to appease the fears of the nervous inhabitants. "Most of them come across on the boats," explained a cop stationed at the ferry house at St. George. "No, they aren't stowaways, neither do they work their passage over. They are brought over by people who don't want them, who have grown tired of , their pets, or want to get rid of them for Bome reason, and instead of taking .'them to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to. Animals they bring them, over here and turn, them loose, knowing know-ing they will never, find their way back. "Once here they have to forage for their food, and become wild and dangerous. dan-gerous. Qften they form In packs like wolves, and then they realize the strength of numbers, and are absolutely absolute-ly fearless. I dare say there are more dogs on Staten Island than In all the rest of the boroughs put together." |