Animals: Dogs in Toledo

County Commissioner Add Thacher decided recently to turn Toledo stray dogs over to the Toledo Animal Shelter Association to be given away. He had been giving them to the Humane Society to be kept for three days and killed as Ohio law demands. Last week U. S. Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, Toledo Humane Society's president, wrote the Commissioner that his procedure was illegal. Strays must be sold or killed. Retorted Commissioner Thacher: ". . . The Animal Shelter Association pays 1ยข for each dog."

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