A TAME WOLF AS PET.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 3

A TAME WOLF AS PET.

A PRETTY STORY. Mrs M. I. Lloyd tells in Badminton for April very prettily the true lifestory of a tame wolf. She bought it as a cub from a man who had caught it on a jungle path. It soon became her favorite pet, and fast friends with her pet cat. After eight months’ absence she returned to Lucknow and sent for the pet she had .been without so long:

‘•'On going out in a dressing-gown, I saw a creature like a beautiful little sollio with a large ruff, a thick brush, and glorious tawny eyes, held on the chain by a wild-looking pahari (hillman). She glared at me a moment, and'when I spoke to her made a dash towards mo and threw herself at my feet, whining like a puppy, then sprang up and fawned, licking my hands’ and feet, and finally lay down and rolled with sheer joy. No doubt about the recognition and the delight at- being at home again! She was let off the chain, and after dancing round me for some minutes suddenly made a bolt for my bedroom, the French windows of which opened on to the verandah, through it to the bathroom and with one bound into my tub—as in old days.

“Her appetite for meals was always small, but she loved sweets, sugar, and all sorts of cake. I kept ia bag of large brown bull’s-eyes in my room wherewith to appease her when she took it into her head to howl at the moon. After two or three she would he quite comforted and lie down quietly to sleep.” “Grannie,” as the wolf was called, had a particular dislike to black clothes. The sight of a clergyman made her lay her nose to the ground and liowl. The poor beastie died at the Zoo in London.