Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1896 — Prowled with a Dog. [ARTICLE]

Prowled with a Dog.

They were talking about cats of high degree, each succeeding one being a little more altltudlnous, when a young lady from Farmington avenue at last found opportunity to say: “I have a cat whose intelligence is best illustrated by a bit of moral and race obliquity she exhibited the other day. The color of her glossy coat puts her in the ‘orange’ class, whatever that may be. She has a native antipathy for dogs, but she is somewhat mote than tolerant of the frisky fox terrier that makes his headquarters at our house. Fox terriers, as you know, consider it to be their earthly mission to rid the ground of cats, snapping their necks as if they will not adopt the habits of the squirrels in the trees. We always knew that he made an exception of our cat, however, but we were not aware of the extent to which they trained together until last week. Then we heard the not unfamiliar sound of sharp barking and lively scurrying in the yard, and, rushing to the window, saw a neighbor’s tabby on the limb of a tree, her tail about as big as the branch, glowering down at Sport. And therd, side by side with Sport, on the ground, looking upward, sat our cat. We were praising her as an intercessor for her kind, when suddenly she left him and darted up to the tree to the branch where tabby cowered. Before we could comprehend her motive she had assailed tabby and the poor animal was fairly dislodged, after a tussle, and landed at the feet of Sport. Sport’s bark of delight brought us to our senses just in time for us to interfere and rob both him and his cat ally of the fruit of their triumph. But wasn’t it cute in her?”—Hartford Courant.