BEAR AND A BOAR HOUND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 78, 25 November 1912, Page 5

BEAR AND A BOAR HOUND.

THRILLING FIGHT IN CIRCUS. Melbourne, November 14. A thrilling fight took place between a Polar bear and a powerful boar-hound in full view of the spectators at Wirtli’s Circus. The incident occurred during the performance by the Polar bears, one of which, without warning, rushed the boar-hound while it was seated on a stool awaiting its turn in the proceedings. The bear viciously hugged the dog, which, in turn, showed fight. Herr Schmidt, the trainer, at once took in the situation, and began beating the bear across the nose, while many attendants prodded both bear and dog, and in every way attempted to separate them. Whenever the bear relaxed its grip, the boar-hound returned to the attack, but it was always underneath, and in evident danger of being killed. After the conflict bad lasted ten minutes and both animals had received a violent boating, a separation was effected, and the bear went to its corner, “feeling and looking very sick” and blood-be-spattered, while the boar-hound, which will not again be introduced into the performance during th 6 remainder of the season, looked very little the worse after the trouble. The other bears in the cage looked pn during the attack, and not one stirred from its position.