Archive for July, 2013

1901: The Greenpoint Cow That Hailed a Cab at the Waldorf-Astoria

Posted: 28th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Cows and Cattle Stories
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Part I of a Brooklyn Cow Tale Some suggest that animals have a greater sense of imminent danger than people do. Did the Greenpoint cow in this true New York story have a sixth sense that allowed her to predict her sorrowful future, and thus, take action to try to prevent the final outcome? The […]

1908: Max, the Hero Police Dog of Parkville, Brooklyn

Posted: 13th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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Part I of a Parkville Precinct Puppy Tale In 1907 the Police Department of the City of New York, under the command of Police Commissioner Theodore Bingham, sent Inspector George R. Wakefield to Paris and Ghent, Belgium, to look into acquiring some police dogs. Police dogs had been gaining popularity in Europe since their first […]

1899: The City-Bred Cats and Dogs of the New Utrecht Kennels

Posted: 5th July 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails
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Once upon a time, there was a cat and dog boarding house nestled in the thick woods near 49th Street and 10th Avenue, in what was then the town of New Utrecht, Brooklyn, in Kings County, New York. The kennels, advertised as the Chelmsford Stock Farm, were just a stone’s throw from Fort Hamilton Avenue […]