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.
Posts Tagged ‘Hopper Farm’
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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1927: Ranger I and Ranger III, the Mascot Cats of the New York Rangers Hockey Team
Posted: 14th May 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: Harry Westerby, Hopper Farm, Lester Patrick, Madision Square Garden III, New York History, New York Rangers, Tex Rickard, The Great Kill
New York Rangers trainer Harry Westerby discovered Ranger in the winter of 1927. The little girl cat was cold and whimpering outside the steel door of the hockey dressing room in back of Madison Square Garden III, so Westerby brought her indoors.
