Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — The Catlike Fox. [ARTICLE]

The Catlike Fox.

The fox is an excellent monser. He will lie and watch for a field mouse tn the long grass like a cat, pounce upon it, kill it with a bite and lay it on one side until he has caught another and another, when, ' picking them all up, as many as he can carry in his mouth he will canter away wltu them to serve them out to the cubs. This fact was confirmed by witnesses in Scotland who were examined by a committee of the board of agriculture when taking evidence on the occasion of the plague of field voles on the lowland sheep farms in 1893.—London Graphic.