CHAPTER XVIII. 



THE DOG ON THE TRAP LINE 



SOME trappers will take issue in regard to 

 the advaDtages and disadvantages of the 

 dog on the trap line. 

 The subject holds sufiflcient interest, 

 liowever, to warrant a chapter, and if some 

 lonesome trappers benefit thereb}^, our effort 

 shall stand justified. 



Now, we will say first that there is as much 

 or more difference in the man who handles the 

 dog as there is in the different breeds of dogs. 

 We have heard men sa^^ that they wanted no 

 dog on the trap line with them, and that they 

 didn't believe that any one who did want a dog 

 on the trap line knew but very little about trap- 

 ping at the best. 



Xow those are the views and ideas of some 

 trappers, while my experience has led me to 

 see it otherwise. One who is so constituted 

 til at they must give a dog the growl or perhaps 

 a kick eveiy time they come in reiich. will un- 

 doubtedly find a dog of but little use on the trap 

 line. We have known some dogs to refuse to eat, 

 and T\ould lay out where the}- could watch in 



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