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dragging it to death, unless they prefer to end 
its life with their pistols. Everywhere dogs are 
ZUNI FETICHES OF THE PUMA, 
regarded as indispensable to success in regularly 
hunting them, —any sort of a cur will do. 
Having reason to suspect the presence of a 
cougar, the hunter moves about until his dog goes 
away upon a scent, when he follows as best he can. 
It will not be long, usually, before the barking will 
tell him that his cur has discovered the quarry; 
and by the time he can overtake it he is pretty 
sure to find that the animal has taken to a tree, as 
this cat will almost invariably do as soon as it 
notices the approach of the dog, which seems to 
terrify it to a degree comical when we consider 
the difference in size. The jaguar, on the other 
hand, while hating a dog above all other creatures, 
