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"All dogs go to hell," said Peter Clark, the deputy superintendent of animals at Newton-Wellesley House. He said there was "absolutely no question" that they "all plummet to hell" after their deaths. "I'm sure there were a few dogs that were trying to get out of the chains, and some were the still and silent survivors. Some just let the chain hang them over the fire," Clark said. "It's an impossibility to separate the amount of dog deaths from the amount of dead cats that were left over from before."

The animals come to death and disgrace in several kinds of ways:

• They fight or injure each other

• They enter roofs to eat stray cats or dogs

• They swim in the ocean to hunt large fish (whales)

• They have their stomachs ripped open by rocks, falling into deep water, and drowning

• Pigs

Clark has seen a fair number of pets in the last 30 years. "I imagine some of them want to be good, but the chain," he said, "like any device, it breaks them."

For Wayne Cordon of Eureka, it goes a little further. He's petitioned the county clerk to amend the current municipal code to designate dogs as "wild animals" that "do not have rights." He wants to remove "ownership" from their definition

"For every dog, in effect, I'm saying 'You have no rights because you're not part of the family and so you're not a pet,'" he said.

That language would have the legal consequence of stripping most public assistance services from Golden Retrievers as has already happened in California except under a new prov