Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1913 — THIS PIG HUNTS RABBITS [ARTICLE]

THIS PIG HUNTS RABBITS

Animal Runs With Dogs Now, but Owner Will Tfain It to Follow Trail Alone. Dover, Del. —J. H. Lankford of Lewes, Md., a village just across the lower Delaware* line, has a pig that hunts rabbits and joins in chases with its owner’s dogs. This pig is a thoroughbred of the Chester County White variety, and is known as Sir Grunter. It first saw the light last August, and was allowed to run around the. Lankford homestead with a pair of rabbit dogs, and it followed the dogs to the woods and hunted with them. When the rabbit season opened and the rabbit dogs went on a hunt, the pig followed. Mr. Lankford tried to fasten up the animal, but in vain. Finally he gave the pig its liberty and permitted it to follow the dogs at will. Mr. Lankford says he will endeavor to train the pig so that it will hunt without dogs.