The Indianapolis journal., 1903-09-29
HOMEOPATHY FOR CATS.
Man Who Takes Care of Domestic
Pets Talks of His Boarders' Needs.

New York Times.
Full Up is the sign hung outside the
door OF a man who doctors and boards
animals in a small shop close TO Long Acre.
The tendency of concentration in trade has
made this neighborhood the home of men IN
the pet animal trade as it has for carrige
manufacturers.
When the man with the full up sign
was asked to explain ii, he said that ii
meant that he had more for
hoarders You coludn't expect me TO
theater could you?' he said with a bovine
attempt at humor. When preliminaries
were snioothed over he continued:
1--WE read a great deal about homeless
cats, and unquestionably there are num-
ber of heartless persons in New York who
go away every summer and leave their
men and smothered. They cannot take
their tabbies to the seaside or mountain
hotels with them, so they just desert them.
When they come back again they come
around hsre and buy an Angora, Rus
sian, a Persian or any other species they
happen TO fancy, and pay more for it than
would have boarded the cat they deserted
for the entire summer.
Our charge is 81 a week for plain board.
If cat has to be beforehand cats are
subject to indigestion, epilepsy, convul-
sions, nervous disorders, debility and other
diseases just as well as children and
adults-we charge for treatment. All the
homeopathic stores keep medicines in
tended for cats. You can buy enough
aconite, in bottles put up for cats, to kill
two men. =
.There are books which we sell telling
all about the diseases of cats, how to dis
tinguish them and how to treat them. The
as the homeopaths, but the trouble with
the allopaths Is that the cats will not
take their medicine. Any person who
undertakes to hold a cat while giving it
a dose of caster oil or syrup of buckthorn
is going to get scratched. But you can put
a small pill in chunk Of liver and pussy
swallows it without knowing any thing
about 1t.
LAS general thing men in our business
prefer the homeopathic treatment, but
where customers give directions that we
it. Directions? Well, | should think, Some
customers, particularly women, buy the
food for their cats and leave us a two or
three months supply. They pay board
rates just the same, and we are so much
in. Furthermore. customers want to be
written to every week telling how pussy is
getting along My daughter usually at
tends to that She enjoys it. and gets
some very handsome presents every winter.
One woman paid for her musical education
and another gave her a course in Stenog-
raphy and typewriting. If any thing should
happen to me that girl could earn her
own living.
1T seems funny to think of bachelors or
wldowerS having cat, but some OF my
Manx Cor no-taiD cat that his wife bought
on their wedding trip in the Isle of Man.
His wife died two years ago. They had
no children and this cat was the thing
she loved best, next to him. Every day,
while he is in town, l go TO his house in
Central Park West to see that cat. / pre-
pare her food. L tell the servant to go
into the park and get grass for him.
The husband takes the Manxer for walk
every fine day. 1t is rather unusual for a
cat to follow at mans heels, just as a
dog does, but you can this one doing
it along Central Park West almost any
fine afternoon.
''At the Woman's Exchange they have
the address of woman living in the coun-
try who takes cats to board for the sum-
mer. She was left with widowed mother
and fine country house and grounds, but
no funds to keep it running. She was in
the society set when she lived in town, and
her friends sent her dogs, cats and birds
to take care of, both winter and summer.
/ am told she supports the household on it.
But the point is that some of her customers
insist on their cats having rooms TO them
selves and cots just like a child. Then
they have plenty of grass to play in. Cats
are very fond of grass, which is their ma
tural medicine.