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Wolves and Wolf Nature 



many greyhounds and staghounds were taken 

 into the West, and efforts were made to use 

 these to kill off the wolves on the ranges. 

 No doubt many wolves have been killed in 

 this way, as it is certain that many coyotes 

 have, but this method of hunting, while an 

 exhilarating sport, is inefficient as a means of 

 exterminating the wolves. In a level country 

 where the ground is good, dogs can overtake 

 and kill wolves; but they must be very swift 

 animals, regularly trained to the work, and 

 there must be two or three at least to each 

 wolf. I heard not long ago of a man who 

 started two wolf-hounds after a bunch of six 

 gray wolves, in a rough country. The dogs 

 easily overtook the wolves, which then turned 

 on them, and simply ate them up. In a 

 rough country dogs can accomplish but little 

 against the wolves, because they become foot- 

 sore and hurt themselves against the stones, 

 and can no longer overtake the wolves. I 

 never heard of a wolf becoming footsore or 

 hurting himself among the rocks. 



In the old buffalo days it was, of course, an 

 every-day matter for a man who was traveling 

 over the prairie to meet little bunches of five 

 or six or a dozen wolves strung out, traveling 



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