Show WOLVES AND COYOTES THE PEST OF THE SHEEP MEN IMEN I 1 one of the greatest grea teet pests pesta that the sheep men ot of vae tae west have to endure said robert P dodd a large sheep owner of hugo col to a post dispatch reporter yesterday arises from the ravages of wolves aws and coyotes the great gray of the plains are particularly fond of mutton and are very dainty la in their tastes when they have a chance to gratify them if a wol waif f gets inta inti a flock when the shepherd is out of sight he be will ill kill at least a dozen sheep in halt half an hour as lie he does not pretend to devour then them but sucks the blood from their throats and then turns to another 41 some four or live five years ag ago 0 several S sheep heep men myself among the number cumber bought a dozen greyhounds grey hounds int intending eDding to run down these animals and rid the country of an intolerable pest peat but the experiment was by no means a success as although the greyhounds grey hounds could easily run down the coyotes when they came to close quarters the latter were far more than a match for the dogs turning over on their backs they would snap to the right and the tae left with their sharp teeth inflicting severe wounds and by the time the following horsemen cabrae up the hounds were hadly badly injured in ina a short time the hounds bounds could not be induced to go anywhere near the coyotes and we got rid of the useless animals we had given up in despair any hope of ridding ourselves of the pests ab poisoned meat had bad a more disastrous effect upon our oar dogs than upon the wolves and coyote sand by shooting we could not dispatch any number worth counting but last summer a mr lane of cheyenne recommended us to buy a pack of scotch deer hounds that had bad proved of great use on the laramie plains we bought half a pack sixteen dogs and since then we have enjoyed some of the grandest aport I 1 ever saw in my life if e these animals are shaped somewhat like a greyhound but are heavier but not quite efte so fleet and are very fierce they possessed ample speed to run down a coyote and when once they had overtaken ore oae were sure to kill it at first they did not escape without wounds as the coyote i Is generally so cowardly will wilen cornered fight desperately but bat it was beautiful to watch the way in which the dogs would deal with one when overtaken the coyote would lie on his back presenting in a keen row of teeth tor for the inspection of the hounds bounds instead of springing on him all at once the pack would wait until some old veteran of which he had four came to the front this do dog would stand erthe ov coyote end male make a movement as it if to 10 seize him by the throat but would immediately draw back his head snap would go 90 the sharp teeth and before the coyote could again prepare himself the dog would have him by the throat and in a few seconds he would be throttled led during last july and august the do dogs 98 must have killed upward of two jana feun dred ared and the losses among the sheep have almost entirely ceased but when the hounds got after an old gray wolf continued mr dodd there would be a battle royal the great gray wolves are larger and far stronger than the ho hounds and fight furiously they do not lie down downto to receive the attack but turn on the hounds bounds and in a moment there is a writhing struggling mass of yellow dairin the center of which can be seen t the lie 1 long ong gray tur fur of the wolf the fight lasts from five to ten minute sand a though although the wolf always succumbs to numbers there are usually three or four crippled dogs to be taken care of and during the summer nine were killed autri outright at 1 st lou lott is post dispatch |