[20] “Animals and their Masters,” p. 101.
[22] Under the Animals (Anaesthetics) Act, 1919, an anæsthetic is now required in certain cases, but the scope of the Act needs to be greatly enlarged.
[23] The use of dogs for purposes of draught was prohibited in London in 1839, and in 1854 this enactment was extended to the whole kingdom.
[24] “On Cruelty to the Inferior Animals,” by Soame Jenyns, 1782.
[25] Mr. E. B. Nicholson. See Appendix [IV].
[26] Unfortunately they are not of much value even for that purpose, owing to the deterioration of health and vigour caused by their imprisonment. “The skeletons of aged carnivora,” says Dr. W. B. Carpenter, “are often good for nothing as museum specimens, their bones being rickety and distorted.”
[27] “La Bible de l’Humanité.”
[28] See the Humanitarian League pamphlets on “Cattle-ships,” and “The Reform of the Slaughter-house.”
[29] “The Rights of an Animal,” 1879.