The correct answer is "She gets them focused on the dogs."
In "a worn path" by Eudora Welty, the phoenix distract the hunter because she gets them focused on the dogs.
In that moment of the story, the Phoenix distract the hunter provoking a dogfight. All the barking, the noise, and the fighting distract the hunter.
"A Worn Path" was written by Eudora Welty in 1941. It is a short story that tells the life of Phoenix Jackson during the Great American Depression. She is an old black woman that lives in the town called Natchez, Mississippi.