(Guyana Graphic July 4, 1969)
Three farmers ambushed and killed a fierce jaguar with cutlasses in the jungles of the Mahaicony river after the animal had killed one of their three hunting dogs.
But up to yesterday the members of the Mahaicony Farmers Pioneer Cooperative Society who have since been granted permission to use a shot gun were scouring the jungles 40 miles up the creek for the male mate of the killed beast.
Following a spate of destruction of cattle by the beasts, the three members of the society set off from their Butenabu Camp at around five o’clock one day a week ago on the trail of the jaguar whose scent had been picked up by their three hunting dogs.
Thirty minutes later the dogs were heard barking and yelping at the huge animal at bay against a mora tree trunk but poised and ready to go into action.
The three men stealthily sneaked up to the rear of the jaguar just after it had boxed and killed one of the dogs.
Armed only with cutlasses the three cooperators went into action-two driving home their cutlasses into the sides and rumps of the animal while the other man chopped his brains out.
Later they skinned the carcass and according to one of them the leader had difficulty restraining his colleagues setting out in pursuit of the male mate which they heard growling in the distance.
The society has since been granted permission to obtain a 16-bore shotgun and other members of the society have joined the three man team to hunt the other jaguar.
