Hong Kong Tiger Hunt Nets Two Stray Dogs
From Reuters
HONG KONG —
The first tiger hunt here in more than a decade ended in a distinct anticlimax when police marksmen killed two stray dogs.
Police said construction workers claimed to have seen two striped animals more than 3 feet long and 3 feet tall strolling at the foot of a hill in the New Territories, near the border with China.
The police Wild Pig Hunting Unit was summoned, but after a day’s hunt their only catch was the two large dogs.
Tigers once roamed southern China, but the last one was shot in Hong Kong in 1942.
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