Weighing 20 pounds and standing about one foot tall, Susie was a jumbo cat. She was also the terror of the rats on the Kerr Steamship Company pier at the foot of 57th Street in the Bay Ridge section (now called Sunset Park) of Brooklyn. Susie would often kill up to 10 rats in a week; her record was eight rats in four hours.
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1946: Susie the King Cat of Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge Wharf
Posted: 15th September 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: Atlantic Yacht Club, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Beach, Cat Stories, Kerr Steamship, New York History, Sunset Park, Sunset Play Center
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1941: The WWII “Aristocats” of the Brooklyn-Long Island Cat Club
Posted: 25th August 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Ann Mudge, Brooklyn-Long Island Cat Club, Cat Clubs, Cat Stories, Hotel St. George
The Brooklyn-Long Island Cat Club was the brainchild of Ann Mudge of Brooklyn Heights. Although Mrs. Mudge had a pampered Persian named Chou Chou Bu, the backyard of her federal-style townhouse at 64 Poplar Street was home to numerous alley cats, including one of her favorite strays, Kitten Mitten.
1946: The Cat Who Broke Rank with the Dogs of Operation Bow-Wow
Posted: 31st May 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Featured FelinesTags: Cat Stories, Chelsea Piers, Liberty ship, New York History, Operation Bow-Wow, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Warren P. Marks
On February 20, 1946, the Liberty ship SS Warren P. Marks arrived at Chelsea Piers (Pier 60) on the Hudson River carrying 81 dogs and “one live cat from Bremerhaven, Germany.” The dogs and cat had all been obtained overseas during World War II by American soldiers who wanted to keep them as pets back home.
1917 and 1945: The Refugee Sea Cats of Chelsea Piers
Posted: 28th April 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat StoriesTags: Animal Tales, Cat Stories, Chelsea Piers, mascot cats, New York History, Old New York, Seafaring cats
Everyone knows that despite its nine lives, curiosity kills the cat. For the sea-faring cats in this story, it was curiosity and a war-time ban on ship whistles that left them stranded on the Chelsea Piers ship terminal during WWI and WWII.
1910: Captain Kitty: John Moisant and Paris-London, His Co-Pilot Cat
Posted: 9th April 2013 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Men, Cat StoriesTags: aviation history, Cat Stories, cats in history, Harriet Quimby, Historical Cats, John Moisant, New York History
John Bevins Moisant, a pioneer United States aviator, was never without his beloved tabby cat, Mademoiselle Fifi. Even when performing aerial maneuvers over cities or racing his Blériot monoplane around the Statue of Liberty, Fifi was always at his side.
