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1894: The Famous Boxing Cats That Headlined at NYC’s Huber’s Museum

Posted: 12th September 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Forget the light bulb. Let’s talk about Thomas Edison’s short film starring Professor Henry Welton and his famous Boxing Cats! This 1894 film may very well be the first ever funny cat film ever made. (I even found out the names of the Boxing Cats…)

1951: The Black Cat That Brought Good Luck to the Brooklyn Dodgers

Posted: 14th June 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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In 1951, the Brooklyn Dodgers were favored to win the National League race. The 1950 World Champion New York Yankees were expected to come in second place in the American League. That April, the two teams played against each other in a three-game exhibition series. The first game took place at Yankee Stadium on Friday, April 13. A black cat may have brought some good luck to the Dodgers that day…

1924: Tom, the 20-Pound Brooklyn Cat of Gage & Tollner on Fulton Street

Posted: 23rd May 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Tom and his brother cat were born in Gage & Tollner’s restaurant in 1917, when the famous oyster bar and chophouse was on the ground floor of the circa 1875 Craft building at 372-374 Fulton Street. No one knows what happened to his mother and brother, but Tom “apparently recognized his proper sphere in life” and stayed on at Gage & Tollner, where he dined on scallops alongside great icons like Mae West and Jimmy Durante.

1936: Tige, the NYPD Cat Who Gave Birth in the Fingerprint Room

Posted: 19th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cats in the Mews, Feline Mascots
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One day after Tige, the police cat of the NYPD headquarters building, gave birth to four kittens, a detective recorded their paw prints on official NYPD fingerprint sheets.

1897: The Cobble Hill Cat That Caused a Commotion in St. Paul’s Church

Posted: 12th March 2022 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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A gaunt tabby cat, a tiny poodle, and a few hysterical children walk into a church… No, this is not the start of a bad bar joke, but it was the start of a comedy of errors that took place at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn on May 2, 1897. According to The New York Times, “never before had such a commotion been raised in this church.”

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