PIGS AS WATCHDOGS.

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1396, 25 October 1932, Page 1

PIGS AS WATCHDOGS.

In some parts of Mexico' -the* wild bogs, which the natives e'all jabaSl — hah-bah-Iee — savage ' beasts "m their natural state, are used as watchdog* If they are caught young and brought up with goats they will goj out into the hills with the herd arid fight off coyotes, or other wild animals; if they are raised with chickensl they will protect them, and round a ranch house at night they are as useful as any dog. . -

Although fierce by nature they can bo tamed until they follow their master found like a tlog. The landlord of an hotel m one of the border towns even keeps one of the wild hogs as a playmate for his baby son. The jabali is only .first-cousin, however, to the domestic pig. Swine are divided into two main branches ; m one line is the farmer's pig> 3'^s' scended from the wild hog of .Enrope j and m the other is the jabali> which is really a peccary. But the jabali is quiet "piggy 35 enough, with, his small flexible snout, long mottled bristles, and long* sharp tuskg; ; V .-;'-'■... ... . ."'. '/.;,