May it be long before Muff’s gracious personality requires an epitaph, but when that time comes, the following lines will apply to him as fitly as to the one for whom they were written, the poet Whittier’s cat, Bathsheba:“Whereat none said ‘Scat!’Better cat never satOn a mat, or caught a rat,Than this cat. Requiescat!”–Famous Pets […]
Archive for August, 2015
1908: The Belgian Sheepdogs That Came to New York on the Tail End of a Jewel Heist
Posted: 14th August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Dog TailsTags: 70 Park Avenue, Belgian sheepdogs, Carolyn Fellowes Morgan, Claude J. Heritier, David P. Morgan, Murray Hill, New York History, police dogs, Robert Murray
This is one of my longer stories — which is why it took me so long to post — but it’s chock full of New York City and Murray Hill history. In July 2013, I wrote about the police dogs of Parkville Brooklyn, who came to America in 1907 and were the first canine police squad […]
1917: Zowie, the Beloved English Bulldog of Vernon and Irene Castle
Posted: 1st August 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Tails, Hartsdale Pet CemeteryTags: Edward Bliss Foote, Hartsdale Pet Cemetery, Hubert Townsend Foote, Irene Castle, Major Frederic McLaughlin, New York History, Robert E. Treman, Vernon Castle, Zowie
“Her death last year was the hardest to bear of any – until his came. Somehow I like to think that her little soul was waiting to greet his, so that he mightn’t feel strange or alone in the great world above us. I can see her jumping and running for joy and licking his […]
