Every once and a while I come across an old animal story that goes into my special folder called “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.” The following cat tale is somewhat funny, very bizarre, and a bit tragic.
Archive for the ‘Featured Felines’ Category
1922: The Curious Case of Lilly and Otto, the Dyed-Blue Cats of Margaret Owen, Part I
Posted: 6th October 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Crazy Cat Ladies, Featured FelinesTags: Angora cats, Hopper Farm, Margaret Owen, New York History, Old New York, The Blue Kitten
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1911: New York’s Buzzer, the Most Photographed Cat in America
Posted: 16th April 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Arnold Genthe, Buzzer the cat, Cat Stories, Charles Thorley, New York History
Among the more than 1,000 images of Arnold Genthe’s photographs in the Library of Congress Collection’s digital library, 82 feature his beloved cat Buzzer.
1881: Humpty Dumpty, Colonel Washington, and the Featured Felines of the Cat Congress on Broadway
Posted: 28th February 2016 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Congress, George L. Fox, Geroge B. Bunnell, New American Museum, New York History, Old New York, Robert Richard Randal
Although the first National Cat Show at Madison Square Garden II in May 1895 is often cited as the first cat show in America, there were actually quite a few cat shows in New York City, including the Cat Congress at the New American Museum on Broadway.
1895: George Techow and His Performing Cats That Made Their Debut on Broadway
Posted: 31st October 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Criterion Theatre, Herr Techow, Moscow Cat Theatre, Olympia Theatre, Oscar Hammerstein, Techow's Cats
“His collection of tabbies is the only show made up entirely of feline soubrettes that was ever organized in the world. Everything they do is performed with the upmost grace. They are as clever as any trick dogs or monkeys and much more entertaining to watch.” – Los Angeles Herald, September 6, 1896, in a […]
1884: Mutilator and the Legendary Newspaper Office Cats of The Sun
Posted: 15th September 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Charles Dana, Helen Winslow, New York History, Office Cat, The Sun, Willard Bartlett
“A single member of this [cat] family has been known, on a ‘rush’ night, to devour three and a half columns of presidential possibilities, seven columns of general politics, pretty much all but the head of a large and able-bodied railroad accident, and a full page of miscellaneous news, and then claw the nether garments […]
