This photo from Antwerp, about a century ago. According to Wikipedia:
Dog carts pulled by two or more dogs were historically used in Belgium and The Netherlands for delivering milk. Dog-drawn carts were prohibited in Britain in the early 1900s on animal welfare grounds, but some still exist (mainly for reasons of novelty) in France and Belgium for delivering churns of milk from small farms to the dairy.Credit, Via Black and WTF.
The banning of dog-pulled carts in Britain had an unforeseen and horrific side-effect.
ReplyDeleteNo longer able to use their dogs for work, and unable to afford them as pets, hundreds of English working men drowned, shot, or clubbed their loyal friends to death rather than turn them loose to starve.
TERRIBLE! Why not just police things, instead of banning? The public are pretty quick to report anything they see as "abuse" so there wouldn't be much investigative work involved.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 1900s, the public would not have seen that as abuse.
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