New Zealand Wolves.
It is a generally admitted fact that when our domestic animals; stray away from their homes into the wilds of bash Or mountain, they, very soon resume their natural characteristics. The foU lowing paragraph from the Lake County Press warns us that a breed of wolves m New Zealand is not an impossibility, if dogs are allowed to roam wild, as at present they are, The. rabbit pest will be a very small nuisance compared with the ravages that wild dogs may commit, if once thej are allowed to increase m numbers. Ihe Lake County Press says: — We are informed by a gentleman who lately crossed Yen's Pass, Greenstone, that he vas tracked by a couple ot ferocious dogs — a half* bred foxhound and a bloodhound — and with difficulty escaped from them by mounts iug his horse and putting spurs to it, they paying no heed to his whip. Had he been on foot it is very probable that his lite would have been sacrificed. A rabbiter that he afterwards met informed him that there were sixteen of these brutes m one pack that he was aware of, and that it was unsafe for any person to come through the Pass with" out firearms , owing to their ferooity.^
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 16 February 1883, Page 2
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211New Zealand Wolves. Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 71, 16 February 1883, Page 2
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