Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1913 — Boy’s Pet Wildcat Puts Big Bulldog to Flight [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boy’s Pet Wildcat Puts Big Bulldog to Flight

KANSAS City, Mo.—A wildcat Is the pet of William Miles, sixteen years old, of 3516 Baltimore avenue. The cat is three months old. It was caught by a brother o.f Miles who shot its mother in Mexico and captured the kitten and sent it to Kansas City. Miles has a collar on the cat’s neck and when the weather is fine the cat is brought frbm the cellar Ur the back yard and hitched to a rope that leads up to;a wire across the yard. A ring on the end of the rope travels along the wire and gives the cat the range of the width of the yard. Not long ago a bulldog that bad

whipped every other dog in the neighborhood discovered the wildcat in the back yard of the Miles home. “I was watching from the window when that old bulldog put his front paws up on the back fence and looked over at my wildcat,” said Miles. “The bulldog looked at him for '"a while, Beemlng to be thinking to himself: ‘Well, there Is a strange looking kind of a cat but I’ll bet a million dollars I can whip him.’ And then he leaped over the fence and made straight for the cat, growling and showing fight My wildcat has long front legs and an enormous paw for his size and his claws are long and sharp. He looked at the approaching dog and crouched for him and when he got close enough he just took one swipe at him and that bulldog disappeared like a streak over the fence.’*The wildcat is tame, except when he is fed and then he becomes so Wild that the boy cannot go near him. He growls and shows fight while eating.