J.M. Boyes 1932 Bodfish, 2600 ft., Kern Co., Calif. December 22, 1932 Frank Ross spends most of his time hunting cats (Bob and Lion) with a pack of 7 hounds. He trains them himself, taking two to three years to produce a good lion dog. His method of training is to trap a Bob-cat, gather the young dogs and one experienced dog, release the cat out of sight of the dogs, let them see and smell the fresh cat tracks and follow it under the guidance of the old dog. After 2 or 3 hunts they pick up a lot of experience at it and learn rapidly. He has gotten from $90 to $125 for one of his trained lion dogs. F. Ross still finds lions in this general region and has all the people notify him on a cat's first appearance. J. Bruce has left this region to him for a number of years. Bears are still to be found, but both Ross brothers class them as harmless, saying they will not kill cattle, but will eat fallen game of any kind, trampling out all other tracks and making it look like bear works. J. Ross asserts that none of the bears in this region actually hibernate thru a winter, but meet up temporarily during