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Hunting Dogs are very hardy and tough, and will go 

 long distances after having received very severe wounds. 

 I have heard the theory expressed, among low country 

 residents of experience, that, owing to their purely flesh 

 diet, these animals display a certain want of power of 

 recovery, and therefore that one wounded is as good as 

 dead. It is sometimes stated also that a wounded beast 

 is killed by the remainder of the pack. I believe both 

 these ideas to be erroneous ; at any rate they are by no 

 means borne out by the experiences of the staff of the 

 Game Reserves, which are, as regards the former, that 

 where the wound is so situate that it can be licked by 

 the animal's tongue, a very good recovery indeed is 

 made. A female running with a pack was found to 

 have had the off foreleg shot away about two inches 

 below the wrist joint, apparently a month or so before. 

 The stump was still raw at the extremity, but perfectly 

 healthy in colour ; the skin was even beginning to grow 

 over it at the edges, and, to all appearance, in a few more 

 weeks it would have been perfectly cured. She seemed 

 able to get along quite well on three legs ; her coat 

 was glossy, and she was in quite as good general 

 condition as other members of the pack killed at the 

 same time. Wolhuter killed a very old male. One hind 

 leg had been shot away just below the point of the hock, 

 and the stump was completely healed, while that a foreleg 

 had also been broken on a still earlier occasion was evident 

 from the presence of a large knob at the seat of injury. 

 This animal was also running with a pack. In a case 

 where I killed one suffering from a bad suppurating 

 wound, the latter was out of free reach of the tongue. 

 No doubt males partially crippled fare worse than females 

 at the hands of their companions ; but if an animal is 

 able to hobble along in the track of his troop by aid of 



