The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-09-27
HUNTERS rEAs rAs nEO LYNX.
When Hungry the California vsrIssy
- Like . Mad Bulldog.


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 treacherous.
the red lyn Most hunters sail them
wild cats" but they are not--the real
wild cat has long tail. and lives only
in Europe in fact, he's about extinci
now, and old hunters dread the waiisng
midnight cry of hungry lynx more
than they do all the growls of a sptzzl
ever let out For when a lynx is mao
dened by hunger. he fears neither man
nor beast and most OF the animals OF
the forest give him the road without
waiting for him to ask for II. In Can
ada and even in the northern row OF
states Of this nation the lynxes grow -
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 occasionzi
hunter. the lynxes hold undisputed
ray in the foothills.
The trouble is that the rascals DO
not stay in the foothills but wander all
over wherever their fancy smells cbicls
en-, for that is their special u and
they terrorize outlying poultry farmers
accordingly. They never make the mis-
take that the fabied fox did of getting
into hole through which they cannot
return with a Fat hen or a young tur-
key. In the low lands they stay around
the thick willow groves. never ventuv-
ing far by daylight, but never forget
ting the way to an unguarded chicken
coop by night. During the day they
sleep in thick grass of Weeds, or Some.
times curled up like a kitten on
broad limb No matter how soundiy
they may be SLEEPING you can never
"catch one mapping" for at the slight.
est sound of your approach he will
clear the ten or fifteen feet between
his nest and the ground and be of like
flash in the underground. About the
only way to get these fellows is with
hounds. and then generally one - two
Of the dogs get pretty severely chewed
up.
In the hills the lynxes usually stay
In thick underbrush or in caves during
the day, coming out to work havoc In
the quail coveys by moonlight Thea,
II the night be bright. the hound hunt.
er has real sport 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.
1t Is almost impossible TO trap a cat,
. though 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 lumbermcn 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 tha
Iynxes become until the family winds
up with the little pampas cat OF the
s South American plains. Our lynx, how
, ever, is the most savage Of AL and the
! hardest for any dog. no matter how
good he may be, to master. In fight
! a cat has immense advantage over d
| dog in that he can fight with all tovrs
and usually does so. There is little
| worse can befall a green pack of dogs
i than to shake an old lynx oat OF tree
into their midst. When lynx fights
he doesn't bite and let go like a vol
or dog, but bites and hangs on like q
| bulldog. while his claws keep up sort
of snare drum accompaniment on the
n dogs ribs. It takes a mighty good doe
n to do up lynx. and when a thorough
u bred hunter gets such dog It takes
b mighty good price TO buy him---Les
81 | Angeles Times