Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — Strange Freak of a Cat. [ARTICLE]

Strange Freak of a Cat.

A Brussels journal relates the following anecdote of a cat in that city, and declares it to be a positive fact : The mistress of the cat having drowned all its young ones, the poor animal suffered much from excess of milk, and was observed for some days afterward to make her appearance only at meal time. At last, an unusual noise having been heard in the cellar, the servant went down to ascertain the cajise, and found cat 5 lying on her sidfl and suckling ajjroibd; of eight- yol}njjg rats, which hfcd €topir4 en O7L by thei£ jbjhj For a week longer the cat conthlissd tlitfe to feed* her natural enemies ; but at tne end of that time, being no longer incommoded by her milk, she one mornng killed them all.