Cats of The Times
Overview
"Cats of The Times" collects the most remarkable cat tales and photographs from The Times archives and brings them to cat lovers and all others ready to scratch their heads in disbelief. Most of these stories, dating back to 1872, are being presented to the public for the first time in more than a century.
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A dog might be man's best friend, but cats were a newspaper's favorite subject in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Stories about domestic and stray cats appeared on a regular basis in the pages of The Times. Some were funny, some were poignant, and all were proof that fact is stranger than fiction.
Discover felines that talked, slept upside down, disrupted operas, saved ships, adopted rats, hatched chickens and walked hundreds of miles home. Read about cats that walked upright on two legs, battled soda machines, befriended birds, rode trains like hobos, prevented a child from being spanked and helped solve crimes. These cat exploits and many more (did we mention flying felines and refrigerator cats?) come to life in this book of quirky, historical New York Times articles.
Articles are enlarged for easy reading and reprinted just as they appeared in The Times. Introduction by James Barron, a New York Times reporter.