Nah. Not yet. Hunting can wait until after you're good enough at tracking to tell a cat from a dog by the print.

[Get a big enough cat, they looked an awful lot like a dog's.

After a moment he lowered his voice so only Newt could hear him]

Just... be careful over there. Don't want you getting trapped in that place. Ain't got any good defenses. Tall don't really save you. You get cut off from below, you ain't got anywhere to run.