Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1906-10-18
RED DOG OF INDIA.
HE is MIGHTY HUNTER OF
GAME ANIMALS.
Never Reaches the Size of a Wolf and
is OF Peculiar Shape-To Be
Found All Over Asia.

Inc req dog never reaches the size
or wolf, though it exceeds that of a
Jackal, says the Saratoga Review. It's
shape is uncouth, the body narrow and
low IN the forequarters, with loose
ImDs ending in large awkward paws
the head and brush carried low. The
mead, remarkable for the large blunt
FURRY ears, is intermediate between
the domestic dog and fox, without the
honest look of the one of the quick
wltted sharpness Of the other Against
tnese disadvantages the bright chest
nut hue of the wild dogs coat, shading
INTO black at the end of the brush
does not avail for handsomeness.
Over most of India it is to be found
on mountains and plains, in forest
where forest grows and about the bare
slopes where the hills have not vegeta
tlon. East of India, a very similar
peast ranges even to Java, and anoth
err paler and shaggier, haunts of ST
Derla and Sakhalin, so that over mos
or Asia one form or other is to be
reckOned with. Naturally the Indiar
species is the most known, yet 1t is
not known at all intimately. fol
though so widely spread it is not {
common animal and the field natural
lists of India have little to say of it
But it is clear that the red dog is ;
very different animal from the vol
and far superior to any other eastern
canine. Most of the wild relatives O
our dogs are cOwardly beasts, feeding
on carriOn and small animals an(
only attacking large ones when hare
pushed by hunger. Such is the wolf!
way of life, while the jackal skulls
round villages and sometimes enters
large towns in search of scraps, max
ing night hideous with his bowls, ever
in Calcutta. But the red dog is ;
true hunter the deadliest foe to thu
game animals that is known in thu
east. He is not very swift-less 81
than the jackal-nor is he adroit Q
graceful in his actions, but he follows
the scent mostly in silence, with ;
deadly persistence, and however long
the trail may be the pack runs int
their victim without fail in the end
They do not go in large numbers;
dozen would be a big pack-but wha
they want in force is replaced by thei
courage and cunning strategy in at
tack.
Their ordinary prey is the powerful
sambur deer and the beautiful spotted
axis, corresponding to our red dee
and fallOw deer, the various antelope
of the plains and wild goats of tn
hills. All of these they harry in turf
for few days, then the terrified
beasts forsake that section of tn
jungle and the red pack must rang
far afield again, not to return till lOni
after, when the terror of their rail-
has subsidized in the locality Thei
methods of attack are terrible in tn
extreme; some of their devices, in
deed, can hardly be mentioned here
Suffice it to say that their ordinar
plan, whenever possible, is to disem
bowel the victim
Deer are not the only prey on whicl
these terrible creatures adventure
the biggest horns known of the gau
(bos gaurus) came from one said t.
have been killed by wild dogs, of tn
Burmese race in this case; and we
this gaur, the largest of all wild oxen
is too much for the ordinary tiger
and the tiger often fails with the beal
the most gallant of all wild animals
but the red pack will bring him to hi
end. Their fellow carnivores even ar
not safe. The black bear of the HI
malayas, although the fiercest O
Italian bears, has been seen in his las
struggle with the pack, with tori