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Show Old English Dog Law Had Sound Reasoning There was a great fear of dogs among the people of England when Edward I was reigning, in which time was established a most extraordinary law affecting dogs, according to a writer In the Ohio State Journal. Only those people living a considerable consid-erable distance from the large forests In that country were permitted to own and keep dogs, particularly large dogs, the lawmakers, with great wisdom, reasoning that a large dog near the forest, where there was much wild game, would Join with other large dogs and follow the call of the wild. A great pack of wild dogs would be developed, game would be destroyed and grave danger developed for human hu-man life. So the law provided a dog-gauge, dog-gauge, an opening of prescribed size, and only such dogs as could squeeze their way through the legal measuring measur-ing gauge were permitted to be kept at a home within 10 miles of the forests. And the law never has been repealed, but It has not been used for generations. |