DOGOLATRY by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1897

DOGOLATRY

By Editor

We believe in kindness to all of God's creatures; but we do believe that man is infinitely greater than the brutes. While it is proper to feed and care for the brutes so as to prevent suffering, it is humiliating indeed when the brute must be elevated so as to take the place of the human. There are those among women who take pleasure in fondling, caring for, and petting dogs of various sorts and kinds, who would be ashamed to be found with one of their own children in their arms on the street. Not long ago we noted an elaborate funeral for one of these idolized pets. We note this time a fashionable entertainment and Christmas tree, at 38 West Sixty-fourth Street, New York. This entertainment was given by a wealthy lady to her two dogs. Other dogs were invited as guests, and fashionable ladies waited on them. Supper, consisting of candy, cake, and ice-cream, was served by beautiful women in evening dress; and water was given the dogs from saucers of the finest Sevres and Limoges ware. The dogs were also entertained with quadrilles danced by women only, to the music of a chorus of women. Various presents in the way of sausages, etc., etc., were given to the pets. And thus no one knows how many dollars were spent, which might have been used to feed the poor, to entertain several idolized pets, who would have found as much or more satisfaction had they been let alone to live as God designed that dogs should live, and dogs, if they had their own choice, would prefer to live.