Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
CATS ARE BOARDED.
Pets Are Also Treated for Disorders
 by Care-Takers.
Such Embellishments in New York City Do Thriving Business- Some Particulars Given
 by Doctor"

Full up" is the sign hung outside the door of a man who doctors and boards animals in 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 the carriage manufactur- CTS
 When the man with the "fu1l up" sign was asked to explain it, he said that it meant he had no more room for board ers, said the New York Times of recent date You couldn't expect me to hire standing room only sign from thea ter, could you?' he said, with. be- vine attempt at humor. When prelim- inaries were smoothed over he con- tinued:
 We read great deal about home less cats, and unquestionably there are number of heartless persons in New York who go away every summer and leave their cats to be picked up by the S. P. c. A. 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 here and buy an Angora, Russian, 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 $2 a week for plain board. If 8 cat has to be doctored-and cats are as subject to indigestion, epilep- sy, convulsions, nervous disorders, de- biIity and other diseases just as we'll as children and adults-we charge for treatment. All the homeopathic stores keep medicines intended for cats. You can buy enough aconita, in bottles put up for cats, to kill two men.
 There are books which we sell tell ing all about the diseases of cats, how to distinguish them and how to treat them. The allopaths have their cat rem edies as well as the homeopaths, but the trouble with the allopaths is that the cat will not take their medicine Any person who undertakes to hold cat while giving 1t a dose of castor oil or syrup of buckthorn is going to get scratched. But you can put small pill in chunk of liver and pussy swallows it without knowing anything about it.
 "As a general thing men in our busi- ness prefer the homeopathic treatment, but where customers give directions that we shall stick to the allopafhic sys- tenn we do it. Directions? We'll, should think! Some customers, par ticularly women, buy the food for their cats and leave us two or three months supply. They pay board rates just the same, and we are so much in. Further more customers want to be written to every week telling how pussy is getting along. My daughter usually attends 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 ste- nography and typewriting. If anything should happen to me that girl could earn her own living.
 It seems funny to think of bache- lors or widowers having a cat, but some of my customers are men. One of them has Manx tor 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, go to his house in Central Park west to see that cat. I prepare her food. I tell the servant to go into the park and get grass for her The husband takes the Manxer for walk every fine day. It is rather unusual for cat to follow at mans heels, just as dog does, but you can see this one doing it along Central Park west almost any fine afternoon.
 sAt the Woman's exchange they