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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
Wildcat 
Hunting 
With Horse and Hounds, in Rough Country It’s a 
Vigorous Sport 
By MAJOR JOHN A. CONSIDINE 
ILDCAT hunting 
opens a wide avenue 
of adventure and 
sport to the man 
who loves a horse 
and a hound. To the 
devotee of this in- 
spiring variety of 
hunting, horses, 
dogs, moonlight gal- 
lops and baying 
hounds immediately 
come to mind and he thrills again to 
memories of many a dashing gallop up 
hill and down dale with his favorite 
pack. Moreover, he who would follow 
the wary cat must of necessity pry into 
little known or less frequented local- 
ities; must explore dense thickets with 
his faithful hounds and must overcome 
obstacles which are met on every hand 
and which necessitate wide-awakeness 
and ready judgment, with the result 
that he experiences the thrills and ex- 
citement so familiar to and so desired 
by all true lovers of the chase. Here is 
sport supreme—the man’s game—for 
not only must the worshipper at Di- 
ana’s shrine know his dogs and the 
wary feline species that he hunts, but 
also he must know his horse and be 
a rider of no mean ability. 
I had the good fortune to follow the 
hounds on many a night when I was 
stationed on the Texas border at Rabbs 
Ranch, about seventy miles upstream 
from Brownsville. In company with my 
friend and mentor, Brown O’Neill, Cus- 
toms Officer, I had the thrill of many 
a dangerous gallop through low, over- 
hanging boughs and the satisfaction of 
being in at the death of many a var- 
mint. Side by side we whiled away 
many of the dull, hot nights that other- 
wise would have been monotonous. 
In the vicinity are found bob-cats, 
leopards and long-tailed red cats; in 
fact, as far as I have been able to as- 
certain, just about every size and vari- 
ety of cat that an all-wise Providence 
saw fit to put on earth. 

HE ordinary bob was found in all 
the various shades of gray and 
red; the Mexican leopard in all his 
spotted glory, too, whose speckled coat 
shone in all its metallic beauty from 
a dull lustrous copper to a glittering 
silver; and the long-tailed red cat, in 
all the tints from reddish tan to a deep 
blood bay. Surely, no one could ask 
for more of a variety in cats and since 
each species had its peculiarities, we 
enjoyed a different kind of chase in 
each case. The bob would run in a 
circle with a diameter of about two 
miles and seemed to prefer the dense 
mosquito thickets about a mile north of 
the river. On the other hand the leop- 
ard and red cat would run right out 
of the country and usually prefer to 
stay very close to the cottonwoods on 
the banks of the Rio Grande. 
And such a hound pack as O’Neill 
had! The hills of Kentucky and Vir- 
ginia had given us the best they had 
that we might enjoy this wondrous 
sport. Red bone and Walker hounds 
with such speed and endurance, I have 
never seen before, and although I have 
seen many packs since, none surpassed 
them. Queen, with her short, mincing 
steps and coquettish ways, who never 
waited for the support of the pack, but 
tied into the cat by her lonesome, usu- 
ally to her sorrow; Bob, red-speckled, 
cross-eyed, bob-tailed, ugly, always 
foremost in the chase and the killer of 
the pack; Sibbey, trim little animal, 
beautiful and speedy, who seldom bayed 
and covered a world of territory; and 
last, but not least, old Tom, the sage 
and dean of them all, who never bayed 
but to call the impulsive youngsters 
back to the true trail and whose bay 
to us was ever a guide in our following 
the pack. 
N memory again I can hear them 
running in full cry, again I recognize 
every one by his peculiar bay. Queen 
keeps up a continual yip-yap through- 
out the run, interrupted at frequent in- 
tervals by. ugly Bob’s melodious call 
and Sibbey’s tuneful bay and yet again 
at those rare times when impetuous 
youth had overshot its mark, the deep- 
throated rumble of old Tom calling 
them back and seeming to say, “I’m a 
little slow but deadly sure, cut back, 
cut back!” 
How well I remember the first night 
I followed the pack. It was after an 
early supper on a cool moonlight No- 
vember evening when the ground was 
still damp from an afternoon shower, 
that we saddled up, taking with us our 
rifles and pistols, for those were the 
days of frequent bandit raids. We un- 
leashed the dogs and proceeded toward 
the north to work out one of the many 
mesquite thickets so common in that 
section of Texas. Immediately on being 
freed, the dogs dashed into the under- 
It will identify you. 
