Recently, I wrote about Tom, the mascot of New York’s City Hall from 1891 to 1908. Tom may have acted as if he were the king cat of New York, but that’s probably because he didn’t know about his feline counterpart in Brooklyn. Jerry Fox, an enormous tiger cat “of striking appearance” who performed heroic […]
Archive for January, 2014
1908: The Lion Cub That Lived at The Plaza Hotel With Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy
Posted: 18th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Feline MascotsTags: Animal Tales, General Daniel E. Sickles, lion cub, New York History, Plaza Hotel, Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy, The Plaza
Once upon a time – June 1908, to be exact – an eccentric pseudo-princess portrait painter named Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy came to New York City, where she lived at the Plaza Hotel with a menagerie of wild animals.
1895: Sport Hopper, the Fox Terrier That Left a Legacy for New York Pets
Posted: 10th January 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet CemeteryTags: Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Ida Mosher Hopper, New York History, Samuel Johnson, William DeWolf Hopper, Woodlawn Cemetery
I think it was Sport Hopper, the nine-month-old fox terrier of the Hopper household on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, whose much-publicized burial paved the way for the first pet cemetery in the United States.
