WILD NEIGHBORS 



CHAP. 



dragging it to death, unless they prefer to end 

 its life with their pistols. Everywhere dogs are 



ZUNI FETICHES OF THE PUMA. 



regarded as indispensable to success in regularly 

 hunting them, any sort of a cur will do. 



Having reason to suspect the presence of a 

 cougar, the hunter moves about until his dog goes 

 away upon a scent, when he follows as best he can. 

 It will not be long, usually, before the barking will 

 tell him that his cur has discovered the quarry ; 

 and by the time he can overtake it he is pretty 

 sure to find that the animal has taken to a tree, as 

 this cat will almost invariably do as soon as it 

 notices the approach of the dog, which seems to 

 terrify it to a degree comical when we consider 

 the difference in size. The jaguar, on the other 

 hand, while hating a dog above all other creatures, 



