Through the professional press
Still trained animals

The Bill Colvin discussion is not over. It resumed with new vigor in the House of Commons. According to the report of the debates given by The Era, it seems that the opponents of the new regulations, notably Sir Walter de Frece and Major Molloy, based their action on an argument which does not lack force. By regulating only public exhibitions of trained animals, in show establishments, we arrive at "class legislation", because we voluntarily forget the cruelties exercised in private or under the pretext of sport on different animals, such as horses. running in training. The bill was not designed, said Sir Walter de Frece in substance, in the interest of the animals themselves, to prevent them from being mistreated, because then it would have been necessary to consider cases of mistreatment in the private or during training, much more frequent than the cruelties inflicted under the eyes of the public, during the show. The promoters of this regulation seem to have aimed only at satisfying the propaganda of certain companies which have provided them with false information and which only live from the exploitation of a certain sensitivity and the attack on " occupation ". Another speaker protests against this interpretation. The discussion continues...