Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1910 — Does Your Cat Cough? [ARTICLE]

Does Your Cat Cough?

Poor pussy! As if the Immemorial charges against her of keeping us awake o’ nights and of eating canary birds whenever she gets the chance were not enough, the doctors have just discovered that for years she has been responsible for the spread of diphtheria. Dr. G. J. Awburn of Manchester, England, having traced an epidemic of this disease in a suburb of that city, to a pet cat belonging to one of his patients, has found, after much clever. Investigation, that all cats are peculiarly susceptible to diphtheritic affections of . the throat. He has therefore recently been warning all families who own cats to watch them carefully, and, if they develop coughs, to forbid their being hugged and petted. Dr. Awburn further recommends that if the cough persists and the cat begins to grow thin to have the animal destroyed at once. The only really safe way, he says, is to let the first wheeze be pussy’s death warrant