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Vernon S. Morwood

Wonderful Animals

Foes of Animals, Friends of Animals

[1883] Vernon S. Morwood, Wonderful Animals: Working, Domestic, and Wild, Their Structure, Habits, Homes and Uses<, Descriptive, Anecdotiacal, and Amusing (London: John Hogg, Paternoster Row, 1883; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks) 267-288.

Taking into consideration the gradual change now taking place in the feelings of the public toward animals, and in their views as to the rights and claims of these dumb creatures, we may confidently look forward to the time when kindness will prevail, and shelter beneath her outspread wings every member of the animal kingdom. (Friends of Animals)

An earnest endeavour has been made to guard both old and young against the attendant evils and demoralizing influences arising from an indulgence in Acts of Cruelty to Animals, and to induce them to cultivate a Kindly Feeling towards Our Dumb Companions. To treat animals humanely will help to make them even more willingly useful as servants of man, and be as the bright sunshine of their existence. (Preface)

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Contents

Animals and the Sense of Feeling—Different Kinds of Cruelty Committed through Ignorance, Love of Gain, etc.—Drink and Cruelty—Sunday Pleasure Van Horses—Cruel Sports—Pigeon Matches and Trap Pigeon Shooting—Bearing-Reins—The Midland Railway Horses, London Omnibus and Cab Horses, and the Four-in-Hand Club—Testimony of Lord Portsmouth, Cracknell, the Stage-Coach Driver, and Hundreds of Veterinary Surgeons in London and the Country against the Use of Bearing-Reins—Noble Example of some Bristol Carters (Foes of Animals)

Individual Friends—Collective Friends—Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals—Pigeon Matches—Animals in Mines—Humane Slaughtering of Animals—Anti-Vivisection—Royal Patronage—Dogs' and Cats' Home—Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association—The Brown Animal Sanatory Institution—Juvenile Humane Societies—Progress of Humanity Abroad—Humanity and Public Men—Ministers of Religion—Magistrates, etc.—Legislators—Teachers in Private and Public Schools—Parents and Guardians of Youth—Masters and Servants—Cruelty is Bad Policy—Demoralizes the Mind—Roman Gentlewomen and Christian Bishops of Ancient Times—The Victoria Railway Station Cabman and his Horse—Kindness Pays the Bast—An Angel of Mercy—Everybody's Duty to Animals (Friends of Animals)