Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — Nurses Seasick Cats. [ARTICLE]

Nurses Seasick Cats.

Miss E. N. Hurlbut of Tompkimville, Staten Island, is engaged in a novel occupation. She acts as chaperon and friend to imported cats, which pass through her hands. Some of these felines are great sailors, and stand the sea voyages very well, but others have a bad time of it, and arrive in a debilitated condition. When the steamer arrives Miss Hurlbut goes to the dock and receives the cats, which are taken from the closed boxes in which they are shipped and put into roomy baskets. They are at once transferred to a Staten Island train, where they are housed in a big orchard, each tabby having his own private domicile. These little houses are placed on wheels and moved around daily to fresh spots of turf, so as to ward off fleas and disease. When first shut up the cats sr.eak back into the darkest

corners of their houses and keep out of sight for a day or so, until they have recovered from their fright They are then given some cat medicine, and when fully recovered from the effects of the ocean trip are shipped to their new homes.