The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-08-15
HUNTERS rnAa rAs nEp lYnx.
When Hungry the California Variety
is Like a Mad BULLDOG.

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California has In her hills the largest
and most Kind hearted of the great
fighters the grizzly and at the same
time the smallest and most tire scherous.
the ied lyn Most hunters cal them
wild cats" but they are rtot--the real
Wild cat has long tail. and lives only
in Europe, in fact, he's about extlnci
now, and old hunters dread the wainng
midnight cry Of hungry lynx raorc
than they do all the growls of a grizzi
ever let out For when a lynx is mac
dened by hunger. he fears neither maa
nor beast. and most of the animals 9
the forest give him the road without
waiting for him to ask for IL. In Can
ada and even in the northern row OF
states of this nation the lynxes grow to
be much larger than they do here, in
the warmer climate OF the southwest
There, too, they are hunted for their
fur, but here that fur is worthless, and,
save for those killed by an occasional
hunter, the lynxes hold undisputed
sway in the foothills.
The trouble is that the rascals do
not stay in the foothills, but wander all
over wherever their fancy smells chick
en-, for that is their special delight. and
they terrorize outlying poultry farmers
accordingly. They never make the mis-
take that the tabled fox did Of getting
into a hole through which they cannot
return with a fat hen OF a young turr
key. In the low lands they stay arounl
the thick willow groves. never yentur-
ing far by daylight, but never forget
ting the way to an unguarded chicke,l
coop by night During the day they
sleep in thick grass or weeds, or some
times curled up like a kitten on a
broad limb. No matter how soundly
they may be sleeping you can never
catch one mapping" for at the slight
est sound of your approach he will
clear the ten OF fifteen feet between
his nest and the ground and be of like
a flash in the underground. About the
only way to get these fellows is with
hounds, and then generally one or two
Of the dogs get pretty severely chewed
up.
In the hills the lynxes usually stay
in thick underbrush OF in caves during
the day, coming out to work havoc in
the quail coveys by moonlight TheG,
If the night be bright, the hound hunt
er has real snort rousing the round
eyed owls with his shouts of encourage
ment to the dogs which are not al
ways ready to rush into the teeth of an
angry cat.
II is almost impossible TO trap cat,
though a hungry lion may occasionally
be caught in this manner. Now and
then a cat can be run into a trap pre-
viously set along a runway, and in this
way the lumbermen Of the Canadian
pineries take many of the cats that in
fest the great forests of the North. The
further south you go the smaller the
lynxes become, until the family winds
up with the little pampas cat Of the
South American plains Our lynx, how
ever, is the most savage Of all and the
hardest for any dog. no matter how
good he may be, to master. In fight
a cat has immense advantage over a
dog in that he can fight with all fovrs
and usually does so. There is little
worse can befall green pack of dogs
than to shake an old lynx out of tree
into their midst When a lynx fights.
be doesn't bite and let go like wolf
OF dog. but bites and hangs on like u
bulldog, while his claws keep up sort
of snare drum accompaniment on the
dogs ribs II takes mighty good dog
TO do up a lynx. and when thorough
bred hunter gets such a dog It takes a
mighty good price to buy him.--IOs
Angeles Times.