Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — BARKING OF DOGS FORBIDDEN [ARTICLE]

BARKING OF DOGS FORBIDDEN

Beach Order of Eastbourne Town Council Is Severely Criticised by Veterinary Surgeon. London. —The Eastbourne town council the other day adopted a bylaw imposing a . fine of 40 shillings (|10) on owners of dogs which bark on the beach. The debate that preceded the vote was an animated one, one member describing the proposal as “frivolous and irritating.” '■ A surgeon belonging to a Well known veterinary institution is of the same opinion. He says: “To restrain dogs from running about and barking is exactly -equivalent to preventing children playing and laughing. The by-laws will mean that dogs will have to be taken to the shore on leads, and their owners will have to punish them if they get excited, or pleased, and bark. “Barking is an exercise which is good for dogs’ lungs and helps to keep them fit, and to restrain the animals 'as the Eastbourne people wish to do will be very good for veterinary surgeons, but very bad for the dogs. “Another aspect of the case is that this unnatural restraint will have a strong tendency to make the dogs sullen and savage, for the dog that la always checked and reproved develops a very bad temper. “The natural, happy, healthy dog barks Just as the child laughs and shouts, and there is no better way tc keep a dog fit than to excite him to ' bark.”