Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — FELINE KILLS 250 BATS. [ARTICLE]

FELINE KILLS 250 BATS.

After former Commissioner of Montgomery County J). K. Graber and Alexander C. Yorke had nearly burned down Yorke’s house in an attempt to kill with sulphur several hundred bats which infested the dwelling, a wandering feline has, during the past two months, exterminated the vampires, says the Pennsburg correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. 7 Since May 1 this ownerless cat has spent hour after hour each evening on the porch at a place midway between a tree and the corner of the house, through which open avenue the bats were wont to fly. Scores of spectators have watched the Cat put up her paw and bring down a bat as the latter flew by. From two to five have been killed every evening. The cat ate her quarry, and more than 250 bats were killed by the feline.