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given to seek friends among the cats, with which he 

 would play at any hour. 



Mr. Hagenbeck in his Hamburg Menagerie, partly 

 for the pleasure of the German sight-seer, and partly 

 to make the animals more cheerful by society, has for 

 many years made " happy families" of the largest 

 carnivora in single cages. The greater part do not 

 do much more than tolerate each other, but the social 

 cement of the whole party is given by the dogs, large 

 but young boarhounds, which are full of play and good 

 humour, and seem to keep the others in spirits by 

 their example. 



Probably, as dogs are the most companionable crea- 

 tures to man, they also possess the gift of attract- 

 ing the liking of other animals. One of the most 

 extraordinary instances of this recently noted was 

 described and illustrated in Country Life. A fox cub 

 was brought up among a number of dogs at a house 

 in Wales, with a park and rough cover close to the 

 garden, the latter being a favourite place for the 

 wild foxes to lie by day. The dogs were often taken 

 to draw this cover and rout out the fox. The cub, 

 when full-grown, used to accompany them ; and when 

 the fox was started would rush after it in company 

 with the dogs, which were giving tongue and enjoying 

 all the excitement of a brief fox-hunt. 





