Dogs before Children

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 18, 1910

Dogs before Children.

What a blessing it would be if wealthy society ladies would lavish some of their immense wealth upon the poor and the needy of humanity instead of upon their pet dogs! For instance, one outfit for a pet dog at a dog show consisted of a small spirit stove for taking the chill off the dog's food, bottles of sterilized milk and filtered water, scent spray, bottle of meat extract for beef tea, china box containing breast of chicken and pieces of prime beef, ivory-backed brush and comb, feeding-spoons, colored ribbons.

The dog for which these were brought arrived in a motor car, reposing in a silk-lined box upon a downy silk-covered pillow, with a small eiderdown quilt for a coverlet. All day the dog's mistress sat by the box feeding, spraying, and talking to her pet. One of the dog-owners remarked to her canine as she left it, "Now, dearie, you have had your nice warm milk; try to go to sleep. Don't be lonely, little one; mother is going away, but only for two little minutes." These dogs are valued all the way from $5,000 to $500. To the normal human it is disgusting.