Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — This Cat Craves Approval. [ARTICLE]

This Cat Craves Approval.

“Mrs. Muggins” is a very good mouser, and occasionally she will catch a great big rat.out in the barn, Bays the Cincinnati Tribune. Of this feat she is always very proud and in-

variably brings the rat alter It is dead to the house,where every member of the family must see it and praise and pet her for being such a good, brave cat. The first time this occurred one of the members of the family took the rat up on a shovel and threw it over the back fence, but in a few moments “ Mrs. Muggins M had it back again ; again and again was it thrown away, but every time it was brought back. At last the two compromised matters by allowing the rat to remain just outside the back door by the side of the step. Ihere it stayed all day until evening, when it was found out why “Mrs. Muggins’’ objected to having it thrown away. The father had been home only a few minutes when “ Mrs. Muggins” walked proudly into the sitting room with her head aloft and a big rat dangling from her mouth. She went up to the man and laid the rat at his feet, looked up in his face and waited to be caressed and praised. After she received the desired attention she allowed the rat to "be carried away and cared nothing more about it. Now the rats that are caught are always allowed to remain near the house until all the family have seeD them.