Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-09-09
daily Yuuulalu grfss.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 9, 1885.
WAYS OF CONNECTICUT CATS.
Hsw Two wise Mothers Guarded Their
onspring Great Cat Mortality.
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onsprins Great Cat Mortality.
Norwich Cor. N. Z. son.l
The Connecticut cat is fertile In expedi-
snts. Ed Parkhursts cat, at Norwich
Town, finding that she could not live
peaceably with dogs, boys, and other
cats, took her kittens in her teeth, one at a
time. scratched her way up the bark of q
big elm In the front yard, and slowed
them In hole In the tree, eighteen feet
from the ground, that was two feet deep.
with an opening Just large enough for heI
TO crawl through. There she enjoyed life
with her family. When she was of call
ing at night she knew that the kittens were
safe. She was In the hole from early In
August until heavy rain storm came on
. few days ago and the tree leaked. In
the height Of the storm she crawled out
with kitten In her mouth and trans ferred
Il to the house cellar. With great Diff
Guilty she carried all the kittens to the eel
ar.
John @. Cooley's cat, at North Frank
lin, disliked the confinement incurred In
watching four kittens all day, and she
placed them under motherly hen, which
was trying to hatch porcelain egg In
neat, two feet away, on the same haymow.
The hon clucked, lifted her wings. and
welcomed the litter. The cat went of to
while away the day, returned at night,
and took back her offspring. Each morn.
Ing thereafter tho kittens were put of on
The hen, the cat strollod away, and the
hen entertained them by clucking to them
until the cat came back at night They
answered to both the clucking Of the hon
and tho specific maternal call. The hen
sat on the kittens for about two weeks,
and then they ran away, leaving her dis
consolidate. There was void In her affec-
tons that porcelain egg was incompe-
tsnt to all. After brooding on her nest
for two days she gave up the attempt to
hatch the egg, and began to lay eggs
again. Mr.. Cooley believes that litter
of kittens Is the only thing, except death.
that will 'break up" a sitting hen.
LNst winter an extraordinary distempor
appeNvcd among the cats of Eastern Con.
necticut that kept them sneezing and kept
them at 1t Until their vitality was exhaust
I'd and they died. They moped about the
roads with swelled heads, sneezing con-
tinually, and when their anxious mis-
tresses approached scowled wickedly ut
them. Many valuable cats, some of Thorn
worth ton dollars to their owners. persisted
In the towns and villages of Windham and
New London Counties. In some cases the
sick cats were chased down and subjected to
medical treatment, and 1t was discovered
that the patient died at an earlier stage Of
complaint than II permitted to die unaid.
cd. Thin fall a new and still moro deadly
distsmper Ia approaching from Danbury,
In the western part of the State. 1t has
already reached the Connecticut valley,
and owners Of favorite cats In the Thames.
Shstucket and Quinnebaug River valleys
are In dutter of expectation and dread.
The disease works very rapidly. II comes
on without any premonitory symptoms,
the hair comes of and the cat swells to
such size that he can not a climb or utter
sound, and, after day or two. he dies
Of melancholy and disappointment. Ply
sicisns are unable to successfully diagnose
the disease, which does not yield to the
old-school practice or to catnip.