Tame Wolf as a Pet.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 19, 6 November 1912, Page 58

Tame Wolf as a Pet.

Airs 51. I. Lloyd tells in "Badminton” very prettily the true life story 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 favourite pet and fast friends with her pet eat. 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 1 savv a creature like a beautiful collie, with a large ruff, a thick brush, and glorious tawny eyes, held on the chain by’ a wild-looking pahari (hillman). f?he glared at me a moment, and when I spoke to her made a dash towards me and threw herself at my feet, whining like a puppy, then spratiir >u> aa-d fawned, and finally lay down and rolled with sheer joy. No doubt about the reeognl-

tion and the delight at’being home again* She wan let oft the chain, and after darning round me. for some minutes, suddenly made a bolt for my bedroom, the French windows of which opened «»n to the verandah, through it to the bathroom, and with one bound into my tub—as in old days.

Her appetite for meals was alwayM small, but she loved sweets, sugar, and all sorts of cake. I kept a bag of large brown bulFs-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 wouhl be quite comforted and lie down quietly to sleep.” “Grannie,” as the wolf was called, bad a particular dislike to Hack clothes. The sight of a clergyman made her lay her nose to the ground ami howl. 'I he poor beastie died at the Zoo in London.