The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
BATTLE AT THE zoo.
Episode Rlvallng Any of pr. Longs
 Observations of Animal Life.

I From the New York World.
 At the risk of compulsory membership
 in President Roosevelt's mature faker'
 club, "Bill' Snyder. head keeper of the
 Central Park zoo reported yesterday an
 exciting episode which rivals any of Dr.
 Long's observations of animal life.
 Snyder has two pet fox terriers-Daisy,
 six years old, and Nellie fourteen months.
 They are both famous rat catchers, and l between meals they are said to delight
 in nature literature. Daisy is said to ad-
 mire Ernest Thompson Seton's works, while Nellie, being younger, barks with delight when the magazines come along
 with Jack Londons tales of the wondrous
 dongs of wise dogs. About the time the attendants were get i ting ready to rope off the cages at 5:30 yesterday afternoon Keeper Snyder was | in the elephant house wondering if 1t is true that elephants brush their teeth. Tn 1 the most approved Long-Seton fashion l Daisy rushed in impetuousy and tapped Snyder on the hand Quite out of breath
 she barked:
 Of course in her excitement Daisy s grammar suffered, but under the clrcum-
 stances that was true to nature.
 Make haste-good-k again bark ed the fox terrier.
 Knowing that Daisy was not a false | alarm, Snyder ran to the cage of the
 aoudads. They are a species of mountain
 goat from North Africa, and are among
 the ferocious beasts that MT Roosevelt
 has not hunted from behind sheltering
 rocks or otherwise
 It was a terrifying scene that met the
 keepers eyes. The two large aoudads
 were pursuing Nellie round and round
 the cage. She was only one leap ahead
 but Snyder saw at glance that the in- telligent animal was practicing all the
 well known tricks credited by the ma ture fakers" to dumb creatures when in
 danger Nellie doubled on her tracks,
 leaped high in the air and. in fact, did everything that the closest student has recorded Outside Daisy danced around,
 giving advice in her keen canine way.
 Try to trip them up and make them
 break their necks. as told on page g of
 Dr. Long's Crafty Devices of Desperate
 Dogs" was the easy interpretation of
 Daisys parks.
 Seeing that Nelies well planned strat-
 egies were failing and that she was about due for the happy hunting ground, Shy
 der jumped barred handed into the cage
 of the raging goats Covering in cor ner were two baby aoudads, for whose lives their parents were battling Even in their infantile wisdom they nipped at the FOX terriers tdll dS II IODOWe0 Nei- lie around the cage.
 When Snyder appeared in the midst of the awful conflict the goats turned their attention to him. Daisy. with her breat h
 coming in abbreviated pants. tried in vain to help her master. Several times Snyder was knocked down His clothes were torn and he received many cuts and bruises. Hundreds of persons crowded about the cage watching the affray. Finally the fo- lad mo a Tnic oh hftr hut af the keeper Instead of hitting the mark he crashed into a pile of rocks and fell to the ground stunned. His left horn was | broken off short.
 | Policeman Lynch threw his club into | the cage. and with it Snyder subdued the | other goat. Then picking up Nellie he clambered out. The fox terrier. with intel 1 ligent barking and gestures of the paw, 1 explained that she got into the difficulty l by pursuing a rate into the cage Affi- | davits of all this can be secured upon ap- | plication at the ZOO.