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drives the cat out, and good dogs easily take care of 

 him when he reaches the ground. The cat often does 

 some damage to the dogs, and sometimes escapes them 

 and climbs another tree. 



As in cougar hunting, dogs are absolutely necessary, 

 since the wild-cat is shy and is never seen by the sports- 

 man without dogs. Roosevelt, when " with the cou- 

 gar hounds " in Colorado, killed a number of these 

 cats, and Mr. Stewart, who accompanied him, "took" 

 many of them with his camera. 



" When the bob-cats were in the tree tops," he says, 

 " we could get up very close. They looked like large 

 malevolent pussies. I once heard one of them squawl 

 defiance when the dogs tried to get it out of a hole. 

 Ordinarily they confine themselves to a low growling. 

 Stewart and Goff went up the trees with their cameras 

 whenever we got a bob-cat in a favorable position and 

 endeavored to take its photograph. Sometimes they 

 were very successful. Although they were frequently 

 within six feet of a cat, and occasionally even poked it 

 in order to make it change its position, I never saw 

 one make a motion to jump on them. Two or three 

 times on our approach the cat jumped from the tree 

 almost into the midst of the pack, but it was so quick 

 that it got off before they could seize it. They inva- 

 riably put it up another tree before it had gone any 

 distance." 



The two largest cats killed by Roosevelt weighed, 

 respectively, thirty-one and thirty-nine pounds. 



Since the dogs are of the utmost importance in cat 

 hunting it is important to know the kind of dogs and 

 something of their training, and what g(X)d dogs arc 



