The Worcester spy., 1899-07-31
TATNUCK KENNELS.
Rare Sights Are to
Be Seen There
Nowadays.
ENGLISH BURROWING DOG.
1t Is the First Case on
Record So Far as
Known.
ENGLISH BURROWING DOG.

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Arthur G. Dodge has at his home in
Tatnuck live coon. captured last Sat
urday night after a spirited hunt in
Rutland. The banded tail will be kept
as pet. She takes unkindly to any at
tempt at familiarity as yet, but abun-
dant food and the best of good care will
be used to tame her and accustom her
to the ways of civilization
Mr.. Dodge is too much of a sportsman
to suffer the insinuation that he was
hunting o'nights cut of season. 1t is
recognized by Ketchem Coon club and
unetts ched followers of the sport that
the young coons are not grown and
that at this season of the year the she
runs with her litter and that when the
dogs are hot on the trail the she puts
her entire brood up tree and follows
herself. The young, too, are but half
grown and Incapable of putting up a
lively run. Therefore it is a point Of
honor ameng coon hunters, and the
etiquette Of the sport is as relgiously
observed by them as is the unwritten
code of the fox hunters, that the band
ed-tails shall be free to run at Will until
October comes.
At this season, however. the enthusi-
astic hunter is hardening his hounds,
and getting the dogs in trim for the
sport to come when it begins in earnest
1t was on one Of these hardening runs
NJ IL
on the Rutland hills, Saturday night
The hound worked beautifully in spite
OF the heat Of midsummer, and soon
fad ms game up and afoot. Later ne
was barking his game up a tree. The
coon was captured not without hard
fght, and the coon hunter knows Of
how hard a contest the diminutiye
pears are capable. Finally with the aid
OF numerous forked sticks and a leather
strap used as an improvised muzzle
the animal was secured. She is in good
fur and weighs about 10 pounds. Sc
cured by stout chain attached to a
collar she Kissed and growled at numer-
Gus visitors to Mr.. Dodge's home inI
Tatnuck.
Mr.. Dodge and his associate, A. B.
Taylor, have considerably increased the
stock of sporting dogs at their Tatnuck
kennels, and are able to show the Wis
ator a magnificent pack of a score Of
purple blooded dogs and hounds.
-One"o of the most recent additions to
the Kennels is the famous English set
ter bitch, Daisy Furness. Among the
other blue blood settlers are Bessie
sFurness by II. Bowman Woods famous
dog Dion Dor. out of Marie; Duke, bv
Kent s., out of Marie; Dick, d rangey
and we'll put up dog by Kent Cd; Men
so, rather diversified Llewellyn; kip,
one OF the best bred settlers that ever
stood in Worcester, the property of L.
n. kinnicutt. The Gordon setter, Nell,
well known to Worcester sportsmen, is
last but by no means least, in the list
of long-haired bird dogs.
Among the good pointers at the ken
nels are Fannie, with six five-weeks
puppies by Dick; Trim and Dime, ran
gey fellows, that look as if they were
able to belle the claim that the pointer
Will not stand the racket in New Eng
land covers. They are by the famous
Northampton pointer dog Donald
Strideaway, out of Flossie Walker, as
well known in the western part of the
state as is the sire. Friday is the kind
of a stylish fellow calculated to delight
the eyes of the lover of the pointer; the
setter puppy Dion is bred in the pur-
pie, and takes his name from his sire,
Dion Dor.
At the head of the coon dogs is the
veteran hound of Ketchem Coon club,
Hunter, the participant in a score of
fights in Holden and Grafton, and a
past master of the art of freeing his
game. George l.. Bars hound Gyp is
also housed at the kennels, and is no
less famous locally than Hunter. Cap,
the hero of the hunt Saturday night,
and the hound Whitish, are in the
company of the older dogs, and will
be run with them for schooling.
The demand for foxhounds of APP
proved breeding has well-nigh depict
ed the kennels of stuff for the run
ways. Mr. Dodge's famous little bitch
Josie and the beagle Exie, that is al
ways her running mate, together with
the puppy Nancy, after A. c. Whites
Hunter are the only fox dogs now at
the Tatnuck kennels.
Mr.. TAYLOR has an especial fancy for
the black cocker spaniel and is stock
ing a department Of the kennels with
registered stock for breeding the active
little chaps. He has Buster, Daisy, Te-
to and Blackberry, a quartet with ped
igrees longer than their tails and all
without a hair other than black There
are at the kennels dogs of high and low
degree, big dogs and little dogs, and
every manner of dog, good and bad.
Notable among the dogs at the estab-
lishment other than those mentioned
are Tony, brown cocker that is a
beauty, the bull terrier puppy Prince,
bred in the purple: Sport and Jack.
two fierce looking bulls of the approved
type of ugliness; the stag hound Mack,
a big raw-boned shaggy fellow. that
stands as big as a pony. and the
smooth-coated st. Bernard Fannie that
has a host of local friends
The dog fancier VIII find endless in
teresting studies at the kennels and
Will be surprised by novelty which
has never yet been recorded in dog an
mails. One of the English settlers
housed in an open lot with half a toz-
en- other dogs has sought relief from
the heat and flies by burroWing. She
has, like a fox, dug a deep burrow in
the ground and allows no intruder to
trespass on her domain. She is rarely
seen above ground except to feed. and
is rugged and strong in her odd quar-
ters. As far as known this is the first
case on record Of a dog revertine TO
the wild state and to the natural in
stincts Of the dog tribe As far as Mr.
Dodge and other experts who have
seen her odd home are informed. no
case Of a burrowing dog has yet been
recorded.