Show lwe f for or ID dog owners by ily albert payson terhune WHY BE AFRAID OF rw IL 41 low Z I 1 some poor Harm harmly leis street dog it 18 stoned by boy boys till it a in a panic fanlo af S arl dog do owner owners on vine line fl street hed had called old blan nek nex ley in to consult with then them 1 about a mad dag d scare notch bich his was ter writing liing the city the old fellow bad had allayed their fears ear by telling them there vias ft a not one realty really rabid do behind ont mad doe dog scare in a thousand and lind that rabies tables as a one of the very rarest dis here fleres the idea he be went on orl we rend that leprosy la Is an awful aisea disease te aag humans the hible bible tella tells ft hat ravages it can camj u and it Is true also there have been a very few lepers tn in america yet every time you get a it raeh rash on your bick back or a sore y place on your band hand you dont go around in panic for fear caught leprosy you have sense elou enough to know that the rash or the sore was probably caused by some duple simple irritation and 4 will set get well yet when some a dog gets any of the hundred sicknesses that make him snap or foam lonin at the mouth or run do down n the street looking for some place to hide ou on yell mad I 1 doc dog P and if he happens to bite you youre sure in for hydrophobia if it he lie bites your own do you ion shoot your dog not very tery logical heyl hey there s not much more chance of our dog haling rabies i thun thain of our lining leprosy so go don dont t lose your head every tima time you hear about no tin yn lin fortunate cur who has had a fit tit or hysteria yes loss dogs CUD hue h ic ieria erla just as easily as your stife ife cili or Is scared seared b baan a chased cli aed font dont go imagining he has rubles there one chance in a thousand that he be has anything ui thing of the kind king ahn an I 1 told yon you abbit illif cf the mighty few cases of ot real rabies are known Ps dumb rabies in to those raises sea the dogs mouth Is set open ns as if be had lockjaw so 80 be bite you if he tried he ile cv tva cant lAvel nt bite at all so that cute cuts down the dancer danger from realy really mad dogs still further till it its pretty near ae negligible ti gible 1 I read a queer old story once about a ronn man in persia a who eat at a ciby diy sate gate and saw san the plague entering the city lie alkyd the plague how many way it was going to kill the tile plague answered I 1 ira m going to kill A month later as the plague was leading the he city the man met it again and he said to it you lic lied 1 you told roe me kill only but DOW are dead the plague answered 1 I did not lie ile I 1 killed only 1 twin brother rear killed the rest get the idea felt glrst 1 A poor harmless street do dog get a 1 or Is 13 stoned by boy boys till its a libnic it snaps snap at ro meone fear does the rest the whole town li ii 1 cared scared I stiff tl for weela every doe dog flint that li Is 01 oc its feed or dumpy or sick or un copy 1 1 k ts hot os as a mad do dat every do dog hai to q ear a muzzle or be chained cp up or kept Inai ors in one western city in 0 li do dog wire valiant cops torild walk aung the he bi bt dewalk and ett 1 t dogs doo as they lay asleep on their masters doorsteps doorstep if it real rabies tables was one tenth as fre aw f bucat as it it Is supposed oFed to be doi dor i you that the sensible people of the world would have risen long ago and destroyed all the dogs dop in existence fd rd hae hale been the first of them theta to help wipe out dogs in suet a cae case for s dog do Is only a dog do and a human la Is a human and if any animal on earth bad the to carry rabies la to wholesale to manki mankind nL then tt atiat at animal ought to be an tin rull I 1 nut but just take 2 look at any of the mud dog scares that tire forever bobbing ban bp up in town after town na when uie the scare has subsided what do you tod out of all the folks bitten do you read of any of them being killed kilted by the blie bite not t once in city thou I 1 yul 1 11 limes lou m read that a lot of AA 1 and friendly pet do d as have fen een massacred as a wife lifeguard guard to the jia cullity end and that the epidemic Is at 10 n tua nd at n endl it wan at a begIn beginning nIn except in the scared geared brain brains of A lot of coward or of people who dint know the truth its it like ever thin thing else in life apply a little cum c um and com mon nonsense sense to it find and it turns tums 0 it to be nothing at nil all juit jut like the poison needle scare in some of the big cibit P it 8 few years sears ago han it calmed down uey they found there had never been a sin le authentic cose of a poison needle fill all that time two week meek of august are known Is the dog days and there theres A silly superstition that dogs are re much more likely to so go mad ad then than at tit any other time of year well I 1 have looked up the iery ery few cases of rabies that have been actually proven in t country during the past thirty years and I 1 find that it Is no more common in august than in january or in any other month the dog days got their name because old time star cazers said sold the earth t L is under the influx lee of the planet sirius the bostar dog do star at that hat time then modem modern idiots tacked onto the story that superstition about it be ing the mad dog season if ever youre bitten by a dog do that has sense enough to go out of ba hie straight ht path to bite you you may be sure he isn t rabid sock the tile wound if it it Is herc you can reach it it wash it out old with hot water unter then dry it ran pant pa nt it thickly with iodine ther for av gt all about it Is the ore vlao and sure cure for do bites 1 avs I ve explained to you that a irad trad do dog Is a ury ery 61 sak dog he ile slouches s alon in and he move aside from his path for anyone or anything if it you get in his nay you may be bitten 0 nay may any dog that gets directly in big way but a really road mad bog eng wont non t turn urn aide to attack anyone dear bear at in mind next time you see a dog do having a fit or boutrin cohering cou trin in panic or confusion or ru hIng around after people such a dog Is not road mad the really mad dog just lunges straight ahead till he can cant t go 90 any birther fir ther then he stands havering na vering till lie he col lapses keep out of hie big path and you re safe besides just keep on oil real what I 1 ive ve been a saying sayin gnot not one ono sup mad in thousands Is really road mad 11 st member too what I 1 fald said about to plague plagues twin brother fear remember that not only with but in aery other happening of life it its worth bearing in inland 1 ci ht by ib the syndicate lie lag |