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Show DOGS WITHOUT MUZZLES SHOT Ten Animals Pay Penalty, Yesterday: Yes-terday: Campaign to Be Pushed Vigorously Ten dogs' paid the penalty yestorday for running-the- streets of Ogden unmuzzled. un-muzzled. The decree of tho state board of health tiiai the dog situation in Ogden Og-den must be remedied was strictly uphold up-hold when extra men scoured the city and captured all stray animals. No ceremony wns gone through In their disposal. By sundown yesterday they had all been shot by health officers. Citizens Protest. Activities of the doff-catchcrs yesterday yes-terday brought a stor.m of protest, from residents, but the work wont on, without a pause. The stale health department de-partment has ordered that every dog In Option either be muzzled or chalned-im-mediatcly. and as the health officials explained to the protestants, the order must be rigidly upheld. This course is necessary. It is explained, due to the rapidly growing number of cases of rabies and as a protective, measure for persons who walk the streets of Ogden. In yesterday's work particular attention at-tention was paid by the dog-catchers to animals who had been reported 10 have bitten people. Four animals with such records paid the price. Among them was a beautiful Scotch collie, who had bitten three persons within a few days. The dog's head will be taken to Salt Lake this afternoon by Dr. J, M. Elliott, city sanitary Inspector Inspec-tor for examination to determine whether whe-ther or not the animal was afflicted with rabies. Continue Campaign. The activities of capturing all unmuzzled un-muzzled dogs will be continued today. Officials 111 charge of the campaign declared that the dog owners have now had sufficient time to muzzle their animals if they wanted to keep them. The running at largo of any animal without a muzzle will be taken for an indication by the officers that the owner desires the dog disposed of. It was announced this morning that the drive here will be carried on until every unmuzzled dog has been disposed of or the animals taken care of by their owners. No time is being allowed allow-ed between the capture of the animals and their killing, and owners who do not abide by the regulations will be too late to take action after the dog has been caught, the health officers said. |