Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — Railroad Cat's Long Life. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Cat's Long Life.

“Tiger," the remarkable cat of the Great Eastern Railway company’s freight shed at Peterborough, England, which is reputed to be about twenty-seven years old, is peacefully ending a life crowded with rat extermination and other happy incidents. Few cats live much beyond fourteen or fifteen years. During her long life Tiger has killed thousands of rats. She Is a light tabby, and came to the sheds for refuge during a fire at a timber yard close by ever twenty-six years ago, having been driven from her borne in a timber stack by the flames. Tiger has always been wild, and has obtained her own food, consisting almost entirely of rats, of which she would kill as many as fourteen and fifteen in one night Her custom was to bring all the rats alive to one of the men employed in the shreds, and would not eat one until she received permission.