170 ANIMAL ANTIPATHIES 



destructive to foals in Russia, especially in the Baltic 

 provinces, where horse-breeding is an extensive industry. 

 Possibly our English horses are mainly descended from 

 the stable-bred animals imported after the disappearance 

 of the wolf, and the ancestral fear of the canidte has been 

 eliminated. 



Donkeys dislike dogs even more than cattle do, and, 

 if loose, seldom lose a chance of kicking or biting them. 

 The writer has seen a donkey chase a half-grown puppy 

 into a stream, follow it in, and strike at it with its fore- 

 feet. It is now believed that the ' cat and dog ' 

 antipathy, which has passed into proverb, has also its 

 origin in the destruction of the whelps of some of the 

 large felidte by wild dogs. There is much probability 

 in this conjecture, for it is the dog, and not the wolf, 

 which the tiger so intensely dislikes ; and it is only the 

 packs of wild dogs, and not wolves, which would venture 

 to kill a cub. Leopards, which naturally live in the 

 branches of trees, simply look on dogs as a favourite 

 article of food, and the puma of the pampas, which 

 inhabits a country where the wild dog is unknown, 

 is also a great dog-killer. The dogs on their part 

 seem quite aware of this difference of view on the 

 part of the various cats ; they will mob a tiger and 

 hunt all tiger-cats ; but they all seem to fear the 

 leopard, and by nature to fear the puma, though in 

 North America they can be trained to hunt it. It was 



