Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — A Trained Cat. [ARTICLE]

A Trained Cat.

Dr. Samuel Hopper, of Bound Brook, N. J., has a cat that Is the talk of the town. It is a large tiger-marked tom of a pugnacious disposition and very Bohemian habits, and the doctor has taught It to hold firecrackers in its teeth while they are exploded. He says It took considerable patience to accomplish this result, but that, now the cat has become accustomed to the noise, It comes and begs for firecrackers every evening. Dr. Hopper, by the way, is the physician whose trained rabbits keep his grounds clear of thq neighbors’ chickens and protect the dower beds from their attacks.