Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — Persons, Places and Things [ARTICLE]

Persons, Places and Things

WAR ON THE COYOTE PEST. Ranchmen Find That Greyhound* Alona Can BBn Them Down. The ranchmen of the west, who have suffered serious loss for many years from the depredations of the- coyotes, think they have discovered a means for their extermination. Greyhounds alone of all the dog creation are fleet of foot enough to run down the cowardly little pests and at the same time brave enough to give them battle. Ranchers throughout the country are paying big prices for blooded dogs, and the friendless coyote is on a run for his life. For years the ranchers and plainsmen have been slrepticarof the stamina and fighting qualities of the greyhound in a finish fight with a coyote, but that idea, unjust to the bighearted dogs, is now entirely eradicated. Clinton E. Worden, an enthusiastic greyhound man, was the first to give the dogs fair trial, and his experience showed that greyhounds can run down and kill singly and collectively hundreds of the marauders of the plains. At close quarters the coyote has not the ghost of a chanpe against the greyhound. and when a pack of the dog 3 or a portion of them overhaul the quarry it is very quick time to mincemeat for the coyote. Packs are now being trained on numerous ranches, and the sport and excitement of a coyote chase with greyhounds is adding a new zest to life on the plains. Incidentally the ranchers are ridding,themselves of disagreeable neighbors.