... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it (1916) (20991338635)

Title: ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it
Identifier: domesticcatbirdk00forbrich (find matches)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: Boston, Wright & Potter printing co. , state printers
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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53 of attacking them. Mr. A. W. Streeter of Winchendon asserts that a hen that was beheaded and left to bleed was pounced on by a cat, dragged off and partly eaten before it was found, half an hour later. Mr. Daniel W. Deane of Fairhaven says that he never knew a cat with a good home to kill a full-grown fowl, but whenever in his long life he has found a hen killed and partly eaten, he has surrounded the carcass with traps, and almost in- variably got a cat the next morning, and sometimes two. Lest it may be objected that circumstantial evidence is not conclu- sive the testimony of eye witnesses must be given. Mr. Charles W. Prescott, a resident of Concord, reports that he lost a large fowl that was taken out of his henhouse window, which was 5 feet 6 inches from the ground. He tracked the animal 400 yards, found the fowl partly eaten, took it back to the henyard, lay in wait that night, and shot a large yellow cat when it appeared and started to drag its prey away. He said that the cat weighed almost 20 pounds. Mrs. Cora E. Pease of Maiden tells of a large, cream colored Angora cat named Richard MansJSeld that brought home fowls to its mistress in 1901 from a neighboring poultry yard, but so far as she is aware the birds were not seriously injured and were released by the cat's owner. Richard was a very high-bred cat and would eat little but cream and beefsteak, according to his owner. Evidently the hens were taken in sport. IMr. Franklin P. Shumway of Melrose saw a cat spring on and kill a hen that had stolen awav and made a nest in the under-
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The fowl killer. brush. This occurred at his country place in Forestdale about May, 1912. Mr. Freeman B. Currier of Newburyport tells of a cat kept in the family of Mr. James P. O'Neil which had the habit