The dogs (aso)are surly, ill-kept creatures of mongrel breed.  They are seldom treated as pets, but are kept for hunting.  Well-fed dogs are considered lazy, and hence they are fed only with a rice gruel, which seems to be neither fattening nor satisfactory.  When in the village, the miserable creatures wander about under the houses, there to pick up and fight over morsels which may drop from above, or they lie in the ashes of the bonfires, the better to protect themselves from fleas and other enemies.  When used in hunting, they are kept in leash until the game is started.  When released, they follow the quarry at full cry, and if the game has been injured, they will seldom give up the chase.  It is necessary for the hunters to follow the dogs closely and beat them off a slain animal, otherwise they will quickly devour it.  They are always rewarded with a part of the intestines and some other portions, so that they may be keen for the next hunt.

Pigs (babuy) run at large throughout the villages or in the neighboring underbrush.  They are fed at night close to the dwellings, and thus become at least half tame (Plate LXI).  Many spend the hot hours of mid-day beneath the houses, from which they are occasionally driven by the irate housewives, when their squealing and fighting become unbearable.  The domestic pigs are probably all descended from the wild stock with which they still constantly mix.  Most of the young pigs are born with yellow stripes like the young of the wild, but they lose these marks in a short time.  Castration of the young males is usually accomplished when the animals are about two months old.

Considerable numbers of chickens (manok) are raised.  Nets or coops are arranged for them beneath the houses, but they run at large during the day time.  Eggs are an important part of the food supply, but the fowls themselves are seldom killed or eaten, except in connection with the ceremonies.  The domestic birds closely resemble the wild fowl of the neighborhood, and probably are descended from them.  Except for a few strongly influenced settlements, cock-fighting has no hold upon this people.

The carabao or water buffalo (nuang) is the most prized and valuable animal possessed by this tribe.  As a rule, it is handled and petted by the children from the time of its birth, and hence its taming and breaking is a matter of little moment.  In the mountain region about Lakub, where most of the animals are allowed to run half wild, only the strongest are broken.  The animal is driven into a A-shaped pen, and a heavy pole is fastened across its neck just behind the horns.  It is thus prevented from using its strength, and is loaded or ridden until it becomes accustomed to the treatment.  Carabao are used for drawing the sleds and for ploughing and harrowing in the lower fields.  Should one be seriously injured, it would be killed and eaten; but strong animals are slaughtered only on very rare occasions.  Wild carabao are fairly abundant in the mountains.  They closely resemble the tame stock, and are generally considered to be derived from animals which have escaped.