COURAGEOUS DOG
LIFE GIVEN FOR MASTER DESPERATE FIGHT WITH BOAR in the rough country at the 4 back oi! Whangamomona, in Taranaki, a dog gave her life in a desperate fight to save her master from the tusks of a maddened wild boar Mr K. Meuli. New Plymouth, lay helpless on the ground with a boar charging him, but his bull-mastiff dog rushed in between and took the full force of .the charge. Mr Meuli and a companion were coneluding a week's pig hunting in the Whangamomona district with a day out for meat to bring-back to New Plymouth. The first pig they found was a pure white boar with tusks as sharp and strong as daggers. Tne dogs bailed up the animal in a creek that had steep sides 15 feet high. To shoot the pig Mr Meuli caught Tiold of a branch and leaned well out over the bank. As he fired the branch broke and he crashed headlong into the creek bed. ... , ' ~ Toss, the dog, rushed in between the Dig and her master as the animal beean to charge Mr Meuli as he lay Winded and blinded in the creek. He wiped his eyes clear to see the dog meet the boar head-on and fight like a tiger to stop the infuriated animal. Brave as the dog was, it was too much to expect her to fight the boar alone, and she was ripped tw ce in the throat by the sharp tusks, but she still fought on with her dying breaths. Other dogs piled in from behind and then the whole struggling mass swept over Mr Meuli. Either a tusk or a hoof struck him in the side of the head, laying open an ear, and down into the mud he went again his senses By the time Mr Meuli picked himself Up the dogs had full command of the situation. He quickly knifed the pig: which had been captured only at the cost of the valiant dog. Toss had died hanging on to, the pig's ear and she mtill hung there after she died. She Was buried on the scene of her .great fight and the camp was very silent that night. Toss was well-known by the children in Kawaroa Park. New Plymouth, where she was a popular favourite and playmate.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23442, 5 March 1938, Page 7
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