The relief of suffering animals in the Shanghai area is work that should receive the appro¥al and support of all right-thinking and humane people. This- work the officers and members of the Shanghai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are carrying out to the best of their ability and to the fullest extent the Society's funds will permit. Not being omniscient, however, they must depend to a very considerable extent upon the ce-operation of the general public in bringing to their notice cases of cruelty or of animals in distress, such as starved and over-worked ponies in traps or carriages, homeless dogs and cats on the streets of the city, ill-treated birds or animals in pet shops and the mishandling of animals and poultry destined for human consumption on the way to the market or after having been purchased there.
During June the Society's officers had their hands full with such cases. Routine work consisted of visiting livery stables, poultry shops, pet stores, food markets, pig yards and riding schools, as well as observing the unloading of shipments of pigs and cattle from Yangtsze ports.
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