Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
WHIPPED EVERY DOG.
An Angorn Cat TIat Reyenged the
Slaughter of Her Kittens.

From the Cleveland Leader
Down in Athens. Ohio there is an Angora
cat with fighting record When she APP
pears on the street every dog within sight
sinks off with his tail between his legs.
Not one of them dares to pass her and yet,
under ordinary circumstances. she is a
peaceable law-abiding cat She made her
record last summer. and the tale Of her
provocation is tragic.
In June she became the proud mother Of
four puff-ball kittens. They occupied a
basket in the barn and every one petted
them and made much OF them: but one
fsteful day, while the mother was away.
rats killed all four OF the kittens. when
the bereaved parent returned a dreadful
sight met~Aer eyes; but, like Pct Marjorie
Jennings turkey,
She was more than usual calm,
She did not give single dam.
She was too desperate for profanity. Ac-
cordng to the hostler's testimony, she just
buried her face in her paws and thought
long and meditated vengeance.
The owner of the cat has a kennel of fine
hunting dogs. Tabby had had various skir-
mishes with them, and had reason to think
them evil characters. She evidently figured
out the theory that dogs were the meanest
creatures she knew, and dogs must have
killed those kittens, for she rose with her
white fur bristling and her eyes blazing.
and made a Decline for the kennel yard,
iiNt uoSS were summing themselves.
Swooping down upon the innocent dogs,
she took them. one az a time, and punished
them until they fed, GOV cred with blood and
yelping dismaly.
Tabby's blood was up. Some dog had
killed her helpless babes. She didn't know
what dog bad done the deed; but she didn't
intend to take any chances on allowing the
guilty one TO escape. so she started out on
the warpath, with a firm intention of whip
ping every dog in town. The neNt-door
neighbor owned a valuable pug dog who
was lying luxurlously on a blue silk cushion
on the front veranda. In at the gate came
an ayenging Nemesis. splitting fire and
slaughter In two minutes that blue silk
cushion was spattered with red and the
pug was a candidate for dog hospital.
Tabby left him bowling in agony and
rushed on in her mad career tackIing every
dog, big or little that showed his head. The
righteousness of her cause spurred her on
and each contest added to her thirst for
gore An Italian greyhound was fit for
nothing but carpet rags when she got
through with him, and a dignified St Ber-
nard has been blind in one eve ever since
he met incarnate fury in Angora guise.
The crusade attracted the attention Of
passersby, and crowd sooR collected and
followed the cat Betting on each event
ran high, and the excitement grew
Finally, the cat neared butchers shop in
whose door sat a bandy-legged bulldog OF
great renown. A murmur ran through the
crowd. The fame of that bulldog as a
tighter had spread far and wide. and every
one propneSleu that the dauntleSS conqueror
had met her Waterloo. She made straight
for the bulldog. He rose and waddlad ont
TO meet her. He knew just what ne would
do TO her He would take her by the
pach OF the neck and break her back with
one shake. Then suddenly something fell
from the sky upon the back of his own
neck and blood rained into his eyes and
ears. When he could see again a wild and
9eliloil h cat was standing ten feet away
from him. but she didn't stay there. SIN.
new through the air. landed on his bacI,
ana clawed burrows before he could toucb
her Ihen she was gone again.
The unequal contest lasted five rninutas
ana at the end of that time the bulldog
whipped for the first time in his life skunk
INTO the shop, and Tabby hunted for an
oSner NIctm- None appeared. She had
cleaned out the town. and. after Ioolfins
Valhly Tor more worlds to conquer She
traned sadly home and sat in the barn door
waning dlsmally all the afternoon. Since
tnen every dog in town will cross the street
to avoid her