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Show TAMING SAVAGE ANIMALS. Cruelty, Skill and Science; Combined. hOW THE TEETH AND CLAWS ARE CUT. Drugged Irto Submission. Torturing a Baboou. Tlie king df lit-jisls when conquered i like a I.ujiIi, and the young lions art-trained art-trained one at a lime. For several day.-, tlie animal in welt fed. lie is templed , to thiihst his foivpaws out in front of the den. Over iheui is slipped a noose, and the feet are llieii lirmly tied down. The lion at once begins to roar and thrash his tail and hind lens about the cage. After a time he quiets down and the keeper enters en-ters the den. W ith a dexterous movement move-ment tho img ie drawn over the lion's head. The keeper sometimes bestrides his back and holds his seat by tightening his legs ai oiiiul the body and grasping the mane of the animal. In the head coveting is usually a sponge, saturated with about eight ounces of chloroform. The lion will try to shake off the keeper, but is powerless when his foro paws aro tied down. In a moment or two the hast becomes unconscious. Other train-tia train-tia then enter the den. Great attention and care are exercised over the pulsations of the Mod's heart. Tho pulse is felt under tlio lower jaw tho same as in a horse. It is dangerous to etherize or chloroform an animal of the cat species toj severely, and the instant the pulsations pulsa-tions become at all feeble the dose lias to bo lightened. I When the keeper becomes satisfied that the animal is unconscious, they begin be-gin operations on hia teeth. The canines, can-ines, bicuspids and incisors are cut off. It requires great dexterity to know how far in the crown to cut without laying the nerve hare. After the operations on the teeth ure finished, the keeper clips the claws, and in a few moments the lion is bereft of his teeth and claws. A heavy collar and chain are fastened around his neck, and when lie comeB to consciousness conscious-ness he is a very duTerent beast than before. The keepers will enter the cage at short intervals after this, and, should the lion attempt to spring, the chain retards him, and the keeper at once administers a sharp rap with a rawhide whip. The lion deprived of his teeth and claws soon becomes cowardly. He is kept well fed, and, if too ferocious, is drugged until he , becomes used to his keeper's presence in 1 the cage. Tigers are more difficult to conquer. Their teeth ami claws are cut off in a similar manner to those of the, lion. Tigers are more treacherous, and will spring at a keeper unexpectedly and ! without any warning whatever. They j are drugged and kept chained for a long ! I time and often flogged into submission. ! Leopards and panthers are easily i I tamed. With the wolf and the hyena 1 j the keepers fear only the teeth. They ! are "dog footed," aud do not strike like i a cat animal. Their teeth are cut and a good club will do the rest. The operation upon the long tusks of the baboon is so painful and apparently so inhuman as to call for a humane society's so-ciety's interference. The keepers will secure a baboon's paws and legs and draw the creature close up to the bars of ' bis cage. The head will be tied also. I After he is made fast his long tusks are sawed off. The baboon is subject to tootachc and his teeth extremely sensitive. sensi-tive. When the saw cuts through the nerve the poor beast will utter the most piercing shrieks and howls. To allay the pain, toothache drops of oil of cloves, oil of cajuput and chloroform are poured in the teeth and tar rubbed on to keep out the air. After the operation ia over, the keeper retreats, the fastenings are removed and ' the baboon allowed to recover. After I such an operation the baboon seldom shows a disposition to attack a man. It is, therefore, not so wonderful, after all, that the man eaters and all sorts of carnivorous car-nivorous animals are paraded through the streets with keepers among them. Titnid people should take heart and remember re-member that animals clipped, drugged and chained in cages are not possessed of such ferocious instincts as those of their native wilds. Cor. Globe-Democrat. |