THE CABIAI.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4386, 24 January 1883, Page 4

THE CABIAI.

A> t animal is found in great abundance in BOUt^^Americ^f the.aferftge size of a pi H; * tH'\iJ^}he;^\a,Vf Dr. Saeo proposes to domeaticate tt|e cabii^i, and shows the f. adrautage which could be drawn from it. This.«niuud(?aD b^tamed To.rj easily ; it . qu^j^^«cojjnises its master,;,whom it . follb,ws e^&rjfwbfre, andiWhen,ca.r];eßSjpd it eagerly responds; it especially likes to be scratched, aodio attract attention extends ita&J^pltoglbW; one Bide*. I*i»rery clean in its habits. In jihape the cabiai realises the normal,ciype of the meatptfotkeiac animal, as it»; body is an:almost' perfect cy!ioder, %ere it not for -its neck, WithHiti»Hmb« abort and tail and ear* Tery shorts: tire head alone is lar K^ :lt«: apathetic dhkrafetermakds all noarishment 1 aTftilable; wKich it consumes, .80 that it is n6t 7jnecessary to fatten it, and it can, v be r kept in a limited, space. It is kept itt Vdty stable, irhere ifcis" fed^on all kinds of TegetaHes, herbs, and roots} it . Hies clean water and a'soft litter. It eats . waaarkably little for its ti*fr. "It will be," . remarks Dr Saeo, V*& exoellent acquisiandpountry hodses, whke, , ; wHoont rVqairinj? more care than a rabbit,, it will supply as much meat as a sheep.' '< Threeabiai-will take a p'aoe between - the sheep, and pip in Europe, ani in many wjjfß' it ban :be subatituted lor the last nimeddomestio animal."