In my last two posts, I wrote about the Army cats of New York City’s Army Building on Whitehall Street and the black cat mascot of the New York Tank Corps. This next story for Military Appreciation Month goes to the dogs. The military dogs of Governors Island.
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1900: The Dogs (and Cats and Rabbits and Squirrels and Parrot) of Governors Island
Posted: 11th May 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Dog Mascots, Dog TailsTags: Castle Williams, Cats of Old New York, Dogs of Old New York, Governors Island Dogs, James Franklin Wade
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1900: The Parrot Who Cried Murder in Madison Square Park
Posted: 15th February 2015 by The Hatching Cat in Birds and PigeonsTags: 23rd Precinct, Madison Square Park, New York History, Tenderloin District
Help! Murder! Murder! The loud cries for help pierced the early morning stillness in Madison Square Park, nearly startling Policeman Betts out of his shoes as he walked his beat near the Hoffman House Hotel on Broadway and 25th Street.
1910: Lester, the Police Horse Who Patronized the Mother Goose Tea Room
Posted: 16th March 2024 by The Hatching Cat in FDNY Horses/MascotsTags: 13 East 35th Street, Clementine V. Lasar Studwell, George Stuart Studwell, Mother Goose Tea Room
Every day, Lester the NYPD police horse worked with his two-legged partner on Fifth Avenue near 35th Street. And every day at 5 p.m., he would visit the Mother Goose Tea Room at 13 East 35th Street. He would stick his nose over the hedge and wait for a few lumps of sugar.
1926: Beauty, the Brother of Rin Tin Tin, Who Saved Pet Shop Kittens on Lexington Avenue
Posted: 19th January 2024 by The Hatching Cat in Animal Attractions, Dog HeroesTags: Animals of Old New York, Captain Joseph Hamlisch, Frank Semon, Rin Tin Tin
When a fire broke out in the basement of a large pet shop on Lexington Avenue, the half-brother of the famous Rin Tin Tin helped saved five Angora kittens who were trapped in the shop window and struggling to get out.