Show VICIOUS DOGS tho aitor editor of the salt lake lako herald has read real of the attack by a vicious tog upon an ogden citizen and the following editorial upon the subject by that editor me meets meats ats our views the man was injured so severely that it was necessary t to L take ake him to a hospital hos altal for treatment mont the dog la is t tu be killed the same samo ewt rt of ot thing has happened in salt lake recently in tact fact hardly a et week p passes lases without its record of injuries inflicted by vicious dogs the time has come to call a halt upon the practice of 0 keeping such animals or at least upon the pt practice of letting them run 41 at t largo the citizen who keeps i t viejo vicious u q dog Is guilty of maintaining a dangerous nuisance andi should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law there Is no telling when the dog will attack a child or an adult and inflict injuries of a serious or oven even a fatal character in ome some parts parta of salt lake it is not safe for children to walk along the streets alone for may at any moment bo be attacked by a dog we ore axe perfectly a abaro axe of the fact that no klog owney owner believes his big pet to be vicious they are never vicious until after they have attacked somebody and then thon it te its too late as far as that victim is concerned all that can be done la iq to spare other possible victims by killing the dog certainly beasts that show the slightest tendency to bite bito people should be muzzled when they are at large at other times they sh uld be securely chained the herald believes strongly in dogs there is no animal that is more devoted to its master wherever man has lived dogs have lived and been a comfort and often a very vory mat material exIal help to him with dogs it has hae been boon made possible to traverse the snowy wastes ot of the far north and to th men in lonely places the dog is often the only companion A faithful intelligent dog is a real treasure but in a civilized community there la ia no more excuse for keeping a savage dog than there Is for maintaining a don dion of rattlesnakes and allowing them on occasion ocoa sion to run at largo large about the tile town |