Dog-puma Hybrids?

HALF DOG, HALF LION

    One of the greatest freaks which has ever sprung on an unsuspecting people is an animal which lives at the livery stables of Mr. Cisneros on Morelos Avenue. The animal is now about two years old and he has a mixture of blood in him which differs in organization about as far as the bear and the monkey. The animal is apparently a cross between a dog and a lion. He is a large, tawny, dun animal weighing about fifty pounds and his features resemble his canine father, but in character is inclined to take up the peculiarities of his feline mother. His running is done on the running order much the same as the cat family, and while he enjoys a caress he seriously objects to a correction for being unmannerly. This prodigy is one of the strangest freaks on record, and a number of physicians who are supposed to be acquainted with the propagation of life refuse to accept the statement regarding the animal’s ancestry.

A prospector operating in the Mingo Mountains up near Kettle Falls, Wash., a few days ago, came across a peculiar animal with three small cubs. He struck the old one with a rope, whereupon she ran away, and he captured the cubs, which he brought into town. They have the form of a cougar, with the head of a bull-dog.