The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-16
Thursday, ,November16, 1898.
Dog and Hyena
A SAVAGE FIGHT ~ WHICH THE DOG
COMES oUT oN TOP.


COMES oUr oN TOR.
From the chicago Times.
With his teeth firmly imbedded in
the neck of the big hyena the huge
African hunting dog in the happy
cage at Hagenbeck's in Midway
Plaisance, Worlds Fair, declared
his authority, protecting the bears
and monkeys from the iufuriated
beast. IL was shortly afternoon,
while the rest of the animals at the
circus were enjoying their quiet,
peaceful midday meal that the at
tendants and performers were sud
denly aroused from their meditation
by the most fendish howls ever
heard on the Midway.
Running to the cage they saw a
sight they will never forget In the
centre of the cage, with the dog
swapping at his ears, was the big
hycnu Caesar. usually peaceful,
well-trained animal, biting the paws
Of littlc.nose bear who he attack
ed. and to whose assistance the dog
had sprung. Just how tho fight
started is not known, but it was be-
tween the small-nose bear and the
hycna most probably over same
meat. 1t has always been ques-
ton Mt Hagcnbecks rs to which one
would win in fight, the dog or n
hyena, and to-day the hycna Is sad
der and wiser animal.
The battle was probably the most
terrible one ever known to have tax
en- place in captivity, and it was
CORY from the start. Selling the
small bear by the head, the hyena
bit his ears until the little black
brute could stand it no longer, and
with howls of pain tried to get at
the striped monster, who seeing
that the bear was showing fight,
made vain attempts to get at r.
neck. The dog 7"ho protects e
monkeys, after Sc them up
fly,
7ru. ..nedi-
ately released the bear and paid his
respects to the dog, trying his best
to free himself from the sharp fangs.
deeply imbedded in his sides. In
the meantime the noise and howls
aroused the other animals around
the ring, and in true animal fashion
they started in to howl and roar
just to make the thing more terrible
if possible.
Taking advantage of n moments
relapse to free himself the hyena
turned on the dog, who proved too
lively for him, and, returning bite
for bite, got at the hyena's foreleg.
With Il vicious snap he crunched the
bone at the Joint, Mt the same time
forcing his antagonist into n corner
Of the cage, and, jumping on his
back, again tore big strip of flesh
II
hyena to give up the battle The
bears then jumped in and each one
amused himself by taking a mouth
full of flesh from the beasts neck,
who was so terrified that he was
bowling with pain, and with sad
look in his eyes seemed to appear to
the crowd around the cage for pro.
lection.
Two of the biggest and huskiest
keepers, armed with stout sticks
and long, sharp iron spikes, entered
the cage and drove the dog of. The
veterinarian then came in and bound
up the hyena's wounds.
The cage was a sight after the con
hict. The straw was pushed into
one corner, and the walls and bars
were spattcred with blood and SIN al
pieces of flesh, tufts of hair lying
around the floor outside. After be-
ing quieted down the animals re-
sumed their usual ways, and the
monkeys, who, while the conflict
was going ON, had never stirred from
their place of safety on the board
above the floor, came down and,
jumping around the dog, their spe-
cial favorite, licked him all over, and
seemed to applaud him on his fierce
attack on the fiendish monster and
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