Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1904-01-21
CATS ARE BOARDED.
Pets Are Also Treated for Disorders
by care-Takers.
Such Embellishments in New York
City Do Thriving B~asiness-
some Particulars Given
by doctor"


Full up" is the sign hung outside thu
door Of a man who doctors and boards
animals in a small shop close to Ions
Acre. The tendency Of concentration
in trade has made this neighborhooC
the home Of men in the pet animal trade
as it has for the carriage manufactur.
ers.
When the man with the full up
sign was asked TO explain 1t, he said that
1t meant he had no more room for board
ers, said the New York Times of recent
date. You couldn't expect me t o hire
a standing o only sign from a thea
ter. could your" he said. with a bo-
vine attempt at humor. When prelim-
inaries were smoothed over he con-
tinued:
we read a great deal about home
less cats, and unquestionably there are
a number of heartless persons in New
York who go away every summer and
leave their cats to be picked up by the
S. p. G. A. men and smothered. They
canno 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. a Russian. a Persian or
any other species they happen to fancy
and pay more for 1t than would have
boarded the cat they deserted for the
entire summer.
Our charge is 81 a week for plain
board. If a cat has to be doctored-and
cats are as subject TO Indigestion. epilep-
sy. commissions. nervous disorders, de-
bility and other diseases just as well as
children and adults-we charge for
treatment. All the homeopathic stores
keep medicines intended for cats. You
can buy enough ~aconite, in bottles put
up for cats. to XIII 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 a cat
while giving It a dose of castor oil or
syrup of buckthorn is going to get
scratched. But you can put a small pill
in a chunk of liver and pussy swallows it
without knowing anything about it.
"As a general thing men In our bust
ness prefer the homeopathic treatment,
but where customers give directions
that We shall stick to the allopathic sys-
tenn we do 1t. Directions? Well,
should Think Some customers, par
ticularly women, buy the food for their
cats and leave us a two or three months
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
hat. She enjoys 1t, and gets some very
handsome presents every winter. One
paid for her musical education
another gave her a course in ste
biography and typewriting. II anything
should happen to me that girl could
arm her W living.
1T seems funny to think of bache-
or widowers having a cat, but
,ome of my customers are men. One
# them has a Manx Tor NOTABLY cat
hat his wife bought on their wedding
rip in the Isle of Man. His wife died 4,
years ago. They had no children {
md this cat was the thing she loved |
'est, ext to him. Every day, while s
lie is in town, | go to his house in !
Park west to see that cat. f..
her food. | tell the servant !
o go into the park and get grass for !
The husband takes the Marker
a walk every fine day. II is rather l
nusual for a cat to follow at a mans s
eels, just as a dog does, but you can
ee this one doing it along Central
ark west almost any fine afternoon. {
AT the woman's exchange they
ave the address of a woman living in
country who takes cats to board :
the summer She was left with a
Tidowed mother and a fine country
and grounds, but no funds to !.
eep 1t running. She was in the So /
.ety set when she lived in town, and
er friends sent her dogs, cats and
lrds to take care of, both winter and
immer. | am told she supports the
ousehold on it. But the point is that
'me OF her customers insist on their
hts having rooms to themselves and \
DIS just like a child. Then they have :
of grass to play in. Cats are :
cry fond of grass, which is their nat
raj medicine"
Room Papered with Envelopes.