Tabby cat

these muffs are made

out of our tabby's skin i thought you'd like them as keepsakes for we all loved her said grace with a pensive sigh as she smoothed the white fur of a dear departed cat feeling that black and violet bows would have been more suitable than red and blue for the decoration of these touching memorials i wonder if there isn't a nice place somewhere for good cats when they die i hope so for i'm sure they have souls though they may be little bits of ones observed kitty who felt as if her name was a tie between herself and the pets she most adored I wonder if they have ghosts, said Nell, as if she feared that Tabby's might appear.

A faint meow seemed to float down to the startled girls from some upper region, and for an instant they stood staring about them.

Then they laughed like a chime of bells and accused little Lottie of pinching the kitten in her arms.

It has been getting so much worse these past few weeks that it seems now as if my stomach were as empty as a rich man's brain.

Why, even the rats have deserted our cottage, and there's nothing left for poor Tabby, while old Blackfoot is nearly dead from starvation.

When the old woman referred to the sorrows of her pets, her remarks were answered by pitiful mewing and woebegone barking from the corner where the two unfed creatures were curled up together, trying to keep warm.

Just then there was a loud knocking at the gate.

Later, he begat several litters on an old tame cat they had, Kitty Cranbrook.

And the only survivor of this progeny, Tabby, became rather a famous cat in his way.

But Tom soon took to the jungle altogether.

Tabby was faithful and a good swimmer, which he would do for pleasure, sculling around the bathing pool behind the children, giving an occasional yowl of excitement.

Also, he had mortal sport with snakes, would wait for a rattler or a black snake like a mere mouse, drop on it from a tree or somewhere, and fight it to death.

Once, he got bitten, and they all wept bitterly, expecting to see a spectacular death agony.

But he just went off into the bush and probably ate something, for he came back in a few days quite cock-a-hoop and as ready to eat snakes as ever.

Red-headed John's room was full of rats.

Which US president is widely credited with keeping the first pet cats in the White House? Abraham Lincoln.

After the Lincolns left their dog Fido in Springfield, Illinois, Secretary of State William Seward gave them two cats, Tabby and Dixie, in 1861.

Lincoln adored animals and when asked about her husband's hobbies, Mary Todd Lincoln reportedly answered simply, "Cats." Well, if you have a cat, a dog, some other animal, give them a pet today from me.

I'm, I'm just, you know, I'm feeling in a cuddly mood, and maybe you are too.