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natural enemies, living and even acting in harmony 
together. We see it chiefly in the domesticated 
and in tamed wild animals. When visiting a friend 
in Patagonia I was greatly astonished one day on 
going out with a gun to shoot something followed 
by the dogs to find a black cat in their company, 
and to see her when I fired my first shot actually 
dashing off before the dogs to retrieve the bird! 
One of the amusing recollections of an old lady 
friend of mine, a lover of animals, was of a pet cat 
and rabbit which had been reared from babyhood 
together and were always fed out of one saucer of 
milk, and when they grew up from one dish. It 
was common to see them exchange foods, and the 
cat would be seen laboriously gnawing at a cabbage 
stalk while the rabbit picked a bone. 
My friend Mr. Tregarthen, author of Wild Life at 
the Land’s End, has just kindly furnished me with 
two or three remarkable instances known to him of 
hunting and hunted animals living together in 
happy companionship. One is of a tame fox, 
taken when small and reared in the kennels with 
fox-hounds. When fully grown its great game 
when the dogs were taken out for exercise was 
to scamper off and give them a chase. Invariably 
when overtaken it would throw itself on its back 
and allow itself to be worried in fun. They never 
hurt it. Then there are two instances of otters 
reared from puppyhood with otter-hounds. In one 
case the otter would go otter-hunting with the 
hounds; in the second case the otter did not 
