The Muzzling Order has been extended indefinitely in time, and
very largely in space, but with the usual illogical exception for packs of hounds. The exception shows what the true policy should be,—to bring home the responsibility for the care of dogs to ascertainable owners, and make tlaena feel how great that responsibility is. We are confident that the system in Vienna of requiring each dog to be provided with a badge attached to its neck, the pass giving the police access to the owner's name and residence, to whom the responsibility. of keeping it if it is dangerous to the safety of others can be at once brought home, is a far better one than this wretched muzzling, which deprives dogs of a great deal of most beneficial exercise, as well as inflicting on them much needless pain through the carelessness of ignorant owners who forget. to unmuzzle them after they have once been muzzled, and eel deprive them of regular food. An order which can °nix ltu,, carried out by excepting from its terms every large assemWoge of dogs, bears Its futility on its very face.
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