Word: veterinarian
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...When a veterinarian named Solomon Shapera took a house in Eastchester, N. Y. three months ago, he made his presence known by placing upon his lawn a life-size statue of a St. Bernard dog painted in lively colors. Despite the fact that the statue is not iron but stone, the neighborhood named the dog "Iron Mike," but did not suppose there was much that could be done about it. Some people said that since it was Dr. Shapera's business to treat dogs, the statue was an advertisement and therefore violated a district zoning ordinance. The veterinarian retorted...
Soon the setter's plume drooped and he trotted slowly home. Police dog and collie also turned tail, as did the low-slung, swaybacked little dachshund. The setter's owner rushed him to a veterinarian, where he shortly died. Said the "vet": "Someone has given this dog cyanide of potassium...
Hard by the farm was Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin's dog haven, "Orphans of the Storm," where the famed pre-War dancer and style-setter yearly spends some $16,000 sheltering thousands of sick and homeless dogs. Thither hurried the passerby with the six sick Scotties. A veterinarian pronounced them too far gone for recovery, advised merciful death. But first it was necessary to get the permission of the owner, one Dorothy Whittle...
...South Portland, Me. last week Veterinarian John Francis Ford told what happened when he transplanted a tomcat's sex glands to a rheumatic 14-year-old shepherd dog. "In two weeks," said Dr. Ford, "the rejuvenation took effect. The dog went wild. He was full of pep. He was all over the place. I never saw anything like it. He wagged his tail so hard that he knocked three loose rungs out of my front stairs banister. Twice I locked him in a cage outdoors. Both times he broke loose. Then I tied him. He chewed himself free...
...Buffalo, N. Y. last fortnight Frederick L. Schoeptlin's neighbors complained to police of his Doberman pinscher's night-time barking. A judge threatened a $100 fine if the offense were repeated. Owner Schoeptlin took his dog to a veterinarian, had it debarked by a simple nicking of its vocal chords. Outraged were zoophiles by this deprivation of the dog's chief emotional outlet. Last week Buffalo's indignant S. P. C. A. concluded after careful study that the operation was not illegal, launched a campaign for a State law forbidding...