RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30154, 11 June 1963, Page 20

RANDOM REMINDER

RIGHT BOSS

Animal lovers of the world will unite in sympathy at this saga of suffering; but it just goes to show that pets, as well as people, need understanding. This all took 'blace in a house in St. Albans, where there was a puppy, very small very likeable, largely Labrador. and a cat not so small and not, perhaps, so likeable. The animals amused themselves and their owner by wrestling together in the most amicable fashion and these friendly jousts were continued, without even the peep of a feline claw, even when the puppy began to grow at an astonishing pace and was I

soon on terms in weight and measurement. Which was a very happy stale of affairs.

Until a week or two ago, when the man of the house was doing something technical to his refrigerator. He had the front of it off, when the telephone rang. He noticed, as he began to speak, the Labrador making' a majestic passage into the kitchen with a sock in his mouth. It was clearly the intention of the pup to secrete this treasure in the new hiding place made available in the refrigerator. But refrigerators are notoriously responsive to the lightest of touches. The Labrador,

bumbling his way about the innards of the refrigerator, started off the motor; and it cost him a broken leg. At last, the point of all this. The dog had to have the broken bone set and put in plaster. But the ca\ expected the daily romp to continue and the dog felt similarly inclined. So it was that the cat had its sharpest lesson in the humanities: don’t trust anyone. A swipe from a growing Labrador’s plaster cast might make Sonnv Liston take offence. The cat now wears a pathetically puzzled look, and is preparing to spend the rest of the winter out of doors.