THE PARIAH DOG 



as related by Captain Baldwin, to hunt their prey 

 in accordance with an obviously preconcerted plan, 

 some members of the pack posting themselves at 

 intervals behind cover, while the remainder went 

 round to drive the antelope or gazelles, as the 

 case might be towards their ambushed con- 

 federates. Sheep, of course, form a favourite and 

 easy prey of this animal, which is also partial to 

 dogs, foxes and hares. Although it is generally 

 stated that foxhounds cannot run down a wolf, I 

 have known two instances in which the pack 

 formerly kept by the late Maharajah of Mysore 

 successfully performed this feat. In each of these 

 cases it is probable that the animal was gorged. 



THE PARIAH DOG 



The numbers of half- starved, often cruelly- 

 mutilated, and frequently ownerless dogs which 

 frequent the purlieus of every Indian village, and 

 which live mainly upon garbage, offal and carrion, 

 are very destructive poachers in the case of new- 

 born fawns, young leyerets, and the young of game 

 birds before the latter have attained powers of 

 flight. Nothing that these brutes can circumvent 

 and seize is overlooked by them, and they are 

 always hungry, and ever ready to frighten and 

 to drive away any game the capture of which is 

 an impossibility for them. In their keenness to 

 do as much damage as possible to helpless young 

 animals and birds, the efforts of these pernicious 

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