Archive for June, 2014

1916: Wang, the King of the Pirate Cats of West 80th Street

Posted: 22nd June 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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Wang was the leader of a pack of up to 100 stray cats that haunted West 80th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues during the brutal spring and summer of 1916. The press called them the pirate cats.

1915: Lady Eglantine, the Hen That Received a Royal Roost at New York’s Imperial Hotel

Posted: 12th June 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Birds and Pigeons
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Today, we have ticker-tape parades to honor our favorite sports teams when they win the World Series or the Super Bowl. In 1915, New Yorkers had a welcoming parade to honor a chicken. A white single-comb leghorn hen named Lady Eglantine, to be exact. Mind you, this was not an ordinary hen. This was Addison […]

1900: Sir Oliver the Parrot, the Mascot of The Lambs

Posted: 8th June 2014 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Stories, Birds and Pigeons
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Sir Oliver was a handsome twentieth-century matinée idol who had a habit of going off script and speaking out of line. Perhaps this was because Sir Oliver was not a man of royalty, but a female cockatoo that had the gift of gab. Or maybe it was because Sir Oliver spent many of her down-time […]