The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-08-23
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RED DOG.
A Mighty Hnnter in India and Mr..
klpling's JUNGLE Book.

of q wolf, though 1t exceeds that of n
jackal. It's shape is uncouth, the
body narrow and low in the fore
quarters, with loose limbs ending in
large awkward paws, the head and
brush carried low. The head, re-
markable for the large blunt furry
ears, is intermediate between the do
mestic dog and fox, without the hon
est look of the one orthe quick witted
sharpness of the other. Against
these disadvantages the bright chest
nut hue of the wild dogs coat, shad-
ing into black at the end of the
brush, does not avail for handsome
ness.
over most of India it is to be
found. on mountains and in plains,
in forest, where forest grows, and
about the bare slopes where the hills
have not vegetation. East of India
a very similar beast ranges even to
Java, and another. paler and shag-
gier, haunts Siberia and Saghalien,
50 that over most of Asia one form
or other is to be reckoned with. Nat
known, yet 1t is not known at all in
timately, for though so widely
spread it is not common animal
and the field naturalists of India
have little TO say of it, But it is
clear that the red dog is very diff
ferent animal from the wolf, and far
superior to any other Eastern canine.
Most of the wild relatives OF our dogs
are cowardly beasts. feeding on car
rion and small animals, and only at
tacking large ones when hard pressed
by hunger-such is the VOLTS way OF
life; while the jackal skulks round
villages and sometimes enters .arge
towns in search OF scraps, making
night hideous with his howls, even
in Calcutta. But the red dog is q
true hunter, the deadliest foe to the
game animals that is known in the
East. He is not very swift-less 20
than the jackal--noT is he adroit at
the double or graceful in his actions,
but he follows the scent, mostly in
silence, with u deadly persistence,
and however long the trail may be
the pack runs into their victim with
out fail in the end They do not go
in large numbers dozen would be
a big pack-but what they want in
force is replaced bytheir courage and
cunning strategy in attack.
Their ordinary prey is the power
full sambur deer and the beautiful
spotted axis, corresponding to our
red deer and fallow deer; the various
antelopes of the plains and wild goats
of the hills. All of these they harry
in turn for few days; then the ter
rfied beasts forsake that section of
the jungle, and the red pack must
range far afield again, not to return
till long after, when the terror OF
their raid has subsided in the local.
ity. Their methods of attack are ter
fible in the eXtreme some of their
devices can hardly be mentioned
here. Suffice it to say that their or.
dinary plan, whenever possible, is to
disembowel their victim
Deer are not the only prey on
which these terrible creatures ad-
venture; the biggest horns known OF
the gaur (BoS gaurus) came from
one said to have been killed by wild
dogs, of the Burmese race in this
case, and yet the gaur, the largest of
all wild oxen, Is too much for the or.
dinary tiger. And the tiger often
falls with the boar, the most gallant
of all wild animals, but the red pacX
will bring him TO his end Their fell
low carnivores even are not safe, the
black bear of the Himalayas, al
though the 1iercest of Indian bears,
has been seen in his last struggle with
the pack, with torn coat and flesh in
strips, fighting gamely still.-Satur-
day Review.