Wolf-Coursing 



training or preparation, will take hold and stay 

 in the fight with the first wolf they encounter 

 until they have killed him. I have heard it 

 said that this was because they did not have 

 sense enough to avoid a wolf. At all events, 

 it is a fact that they will unhesitatingly take 

 hold of a wolf when dogs older, stronger and 

 better adapted to fighting will refuse to do so. 

 I have found that, while all dogs will hunt or 

 run a fox spontaneously, with seeming pleas- 

 ure, they have a natural repugnance and great 

 aversion to the proverbially offensive odor pe- 

 culiar to the wolf. I once hunted a pack of 

 high-bred foxhounds, noted for their courage. 

 They had not only caught and killed scores of 

 red foxes, but had also been used in running 

 down and killing sheep-killing dogs. Though 

 they had never seen a wolf, I did not doubt 

 for an instant that they would kill one. While 

 they trailed and ran him true, pulling him 

 down in a few miles, they utterly refused to 

 break him up when caught. The following 

 extract, from an article I wrote some years ago 

 on the "Greyhound," for the "American Book 

 of the Dog," expresses my views of the cour- 

 age and adaptability of the greyhound for 

 wolf-hunting : 



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