The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-07
a PROUD COUPLE.
Friendship Of a Cat and a Dog-Yet They
Were Jealous

Friendship Of Cat and a Dog-Iet They
Were Jealous
Human beings are not the sole pos
SCISSORS of anomalous characteristics
have seen animals again and again dis
play inconsistencies every bit as fla
grant as those ever exhibited by men or
women At an old-fashioned farm
house, where l once happened to put
up, were cat and dog which evinced
the most extraordinary friendship for
one another and were seldom seen
apart. and yet, despite this fact, any
attention shown to the one would cause
a e of jealousy in the other most diff
cult to appease. | have seen the cat go
out of the room in high dudgeon be-
cause some one happened TO caress the
dog, and the latter would retire TO
corner in a most unmistakable fit of the
sulks if puss happened to come IN for
any favor withheld from him Be it
understood that this only occurred
when the distinction was made in favor
of one by member of the household
Anything OF the kind from a stranger
seemed to excite no feeling of jealousy
whatsoever.
The cat one day became the proud
mother of three kittens, the birth TAX
ing place in an clubhouse where wood
for the fires was stored / shall never
forget the scene that was enacted that
day. We were sitting in the parlor
towards dusk when in came the dog,
large retriever, bearing one Of the little
creatures gingerly in his mouth, being
closely attended By the elated mother.
The pair walked straight up to the
mistress Of the house and the dog de-
posted his burden at her feet After
few preliminary touches to its
toilet, performed by the mother,
they marched out again to-
gether. Presently they returned
with second, and later with third
kitten, behaving exactly as before, only
that when the tally was all told the cat
jumped into the iadY's lap and rubbed
herself caressingly against her, and
the dog stood looking up into her face
with the evident expectation OF some
mark of approval After the kittens had
been duly noticed and the Participstors
in the little comedy petted TO their
hearts content, the happy family left for
their own quarters in just the same way
that they had entered, except that on
this occasion pussy assisted in the trans
portation. Every day regularly the
same thing occurred until the little ones
became too big 10 approve Of such sum
mary methods Of removal, and when
the dog, which evidently considered
that he had a proprietary interest in
them, would attempt 20 carry them OF.
/ he sometimes got an unexpected rebuff
in the shape Of severe scratch in the
nose, which disconnected him percepti-
bly,.
Alas and alacki sad accident befell
poor pussy one day. She was kicked oy
one of the cart-horses and run over By
the wagon which he was drawing, aud
50 had TO De buried by one Of the boys
. belonging 20 the house The dog
watched the proceedings with palpable
grief. and i was evident that he sorelv
missed his old plaYmate, Many time
De might hare been seen nosing around
pusSv's grave don't undertake 70
szv that he died of grief as I had LEFT
the house long before the end CANE. but
. ne certainly never was the same after
lie eats tragic end some mon tbs
after he fell in.o distemper and gave
ID the zEos- The mutual aSectiOa q
.hese animals WIS % n extreme nature,
and vet neither one could bear 20 Sc
aar preference shown 20 The other. St
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