NAVY PETS.
Practically every ship or depot in the navy has its maseot or pet. The variety to lie found in some of the larger ’dps or establishments is really roni—kable. Probably no oilier ship can boast of such a collection of birds or animals as that possessed by the gunnery training-ship IT.M.S. Excellent at Whale Island, Portsmouth. There is a large avaiary on the island, v.diich includes cockatoos, peacocks, storks, curlews, and emus. The majority of these have been presented to the gunnery school by officers and men of the navy who have left their ships with their pets after completing a- foreign commission. In addition to the birds there are d good number of animal pets, including otter hounds, some halfdozen or so wallabies, and a monkey named Jennie, who has reigned supreme for live or six years. A.special cemetery has been set aside for the interment of departed pets. It is really remarkable how devoted, u seafaring man is to his pets. In life he treats them most kindly, and even when they pass away he cannot forget them.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1891, 17 October 1918, Page 4
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182NAVY PETS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1891, 17 October 1918, Page 4
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