'The dos in the-fat always has been a problem. since Mats were built, Lacking a garden' in which he can run around he must rely for his exercise on the restricted attention of his master. for his master's servants. The result is that the corridors of the building, or some confined place nearby, are his stamping ground and. his exuberances often cotise annoyance to the neigh ours. Shanghai, being a city of concentrated residential areas, suffers Tot from extraneous Sources of noise' and every sympathy must be extended to those sufferers from the barking of dogs—largely due to the owner's forgetting the elementary principles of decency and respect for the rights of others. Throughout the world regulations regarding the keeping of dogs are being tightened up snot in any sense of crippling the dog In. its activities but in enforcing observance of other people's rights. In France, {or instance, tenancy of apartments is predicated fon observance of anti-noise conditions, but in Shanghai the multiplicity of laws in existence makes it dificult for the Municipal. Police to carry out all the regulations. "It might be sugested that some summary form of procedure might be introduced to empower the police to enforce the rule that a neighbour's rights to live. quietly must be respected. There is another Solution which dog experts will support, dogs are taken out for their daily walk instead of being confined to. small rooms or corridors there would be a natural remedy which would not need judicial enactment, It really is up 10 the owner, aL
[tls proposed to hold an Old Cheltonians dinner at Shanghai in the near future.-
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