The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-02
CAT AND DOG DOCTOR.
What Some People Are Willing to
Pay for Their Pet Fads.

Pay for Their Pet Fads.
The New Yerk Sun has published several
articles relative to the home for INDECENT
cats and dogs which is established away up
town near Washington Heights Meantime
private hospital, santarium and home fer
| dogs is in full blast on Broadway, near Fiji
tieth street. Incidentally it is also pace
where dogs are kept for sale. SO are cats
and rabbits and pigeons and canary birds
The dogs are the principal stock In trade. A
Sun reporter happened into the place few
evenings ago, his attention having been at
/ tracted TO 1t by an advertisement which
stated that dogs were kept, trained and doc
tored there. The doctor was not at home
when the reporter called, but his wife was.
So were the dogs. They were enthusiastic
in their welcome. Every one of them eX-
cept three began to bark; the other three
hOwled. Whatever else may have been the
matter with them their lungs Ill hne
ORDER
The doctors wife asked the visitor po-
litely to be seated. There were three chairs
in the room On one of them was a fox-
terrier, on another skye, and on another a
Maltese cat.
The doctors wife dumped the skye-terrier
unceTemOniOusly on the floor, and the re-
porter took his place on the chair: The
room was in a basement fronting on Broad
way. 1t was filled on three sides with cages
containing birds, rabbits and cats. Half
dozen dogs lay around up the floor. The
rest of the dogs were in a back room. There
was door between the two rooms, and III
the door was a window closed by slide
similar TO that employed in gam bling
houses.
The doctor has gone to see lady's dog
in Filth avenue" said the doctors wife, as
size proceeded to comb and brush ont the
hair of little skye-terrier puppy. He
wont be gone long. think her dog is sick
or something"
Then the young woman turned to the pup
Ply and devoted herself to making him look
as nearly as possible like dude of his breed.
She cOmbed and brushed his hair as care
fully as If lie were child she parted 1t
down the middle OF his back, and brushed it
down over his eyes. TAen She held him off
at arms length and said to HIM:
rs 90 re pOetiest itty bOw-wow In New
ork? And IL 90 dressed up to go to a
party?"
The Maltese cat arched her back, swelled
out her tail and looked disguised; the fox
terrier shifted contemptuously and covered
his nose with his paws; the pigeons cOOed
and tucked their heads under their wings.
Then the doctor came in. Instantly every
dog Ill the place began to bark ana howl his
loudest. The doctor walked 10 the little
window IN the door, poked his head through
1t and said one magical word:
"Hi!'
Instantly the place was as silent as the
caLacombs.
You see, sir" said he, as he turned to the
reporter, these dogs impose on this here
lady, when she is alone with them, don't
you know. She Is a nice lady, sir, but no
lady can manage dogs, you understand. 1t
takes man IN the house, don't yoL see, 10
make them behave Why, ii | was TO leave
them alone with her for week don't you
know, they would eat her up, sir"
"a a +ha,
doctor said:
That WAS great dame in Fifth avenue.
She has setter that came from Australia or
some OF those places about thousand miles
away, and she wants me- to take him and
keep hum and train him for about month.
told her he would cost Sl5, and she SAYS
all right. | ain sorry now didn't say S25
She would have paid just as quick. 1 am to
so Tor the dog in the morning."
DO you have many sick dogs to take care
OFF, asked the reporter.
nothing the matter with 'em, except over
eating, don't you know. L give EN- dog
biscuit and a little sulphur and mulasses
and they come around all right. l have
some medicine here for the real sick ones
and some mango cure. The business isn't
what il once was. You see there is such
lot of fakirs selling kyoodles In the streets
for half nothing that there is no chance for
an honest man who KIN VS. the business and
is responsible for the dogs he sells. Sure,
than there is in dogs nowadays.
WHAT do you train cats fOrP
81 train them not to touch birds, sir. It's
very easy. All do is to make the cats stay
right alongside o the birds cage, and after
a while they get so rs they don't care for
the birds. keep the cats in cages, too, at the
same time showing them up in the window.
zone uay fine lady came i'll here-she
was the wife of one of the city Judges-and
she sees Maltese Cat in the cage, and she
SAYS .., .o
DAYS ago. says she. Give her to me-, says
she. No, ma'am,' says l. If you want
that cat says |, you will have to pay me
$40 Tor it, But she's my own cat says
she. L wont dispute your word says /,
but that cat will cost you S1o,' says l.
''She went away, and pretty soon her hus-
band came in. here, my man, says he.
you've got my wife's cat here says he,
and you'll have to give her up says he
Well, sir, had taken the cat that was
in the case out OF it, and put another one
there after the lady went out and so says
to the old gent: Is that your cat in the
know her anywhere We'll, then, says 1,
you will have to pay me $40 for that cat,
says l. There was man sent away only
last week for stealing cat says he. and
you'd better be careful says he. Ten dol
lars is my price, says /.
Well, he went away, and in the after
noon he and his wife and his daughter came
in together. The daughter looks at the cat
in the cage. and says she: .Oh, my poor,
dear pussy says she. Is she the right onrP
says the old gent. I'D know her in mill
ion,' says the daughter. There's no doubt
on it, says the old lady; there's our lost
pussy says she. Then You'll give her up,
my manT says the old gent to me. / will
for $40, and no less, says l.
well, there was lot of talking and ar
gument after that and the daughter began
to cry, and the old lady said l was no better
than a thief and the old gent threatened me
with Sing Sing; but, 10 cut long story
short, 1t ended by their paying me SIS and
taking the cat away with them. The next
morning back comes the old gent with the
cat in tie basket
look here, my man. says he; you've
cheated u.s. This isn't our Cat at ALL
i never said it was said |.
My son came back home last night,
says the old gent, and he says that's not
our cat This is Tom. Our cat had lit
ter Of four last June, says the old gent, so
this can't be our cat at ALL says he. Fur
thermoTe, says he, my daughter can't love
this cat, and want you to tLke it back anu
give me the S. says he. No, SIR says l;
III take the cat back and sell it on commits
sion, and you'll have TO pay me 81 week
for Its board says L. 'All right says be,
and he left the cat.
But sir, he never came back, and after
while sold the cat to another party"
They Are Men Like Her, Though.
her horse and cutter from an impendIn g
smash-up on Grand River he asked of her:
Don't you know that you are on the
wrong side of the street?"
why, no."
Don't you know the ordinance says you