FISHING CATS
... ENGLISH WOMAN'S ' WATCH-DOGS." Seven eats, which fish, catch rats, ri'd are good "watch-dogs"—they hiss at stiangers—are owned by Mrs R. King, of Sundial, Kingswood Creek. Wrays bury, Buckinghamshire. Every day they have a meal of dace, small roach, and bleak. If they are impudent they sit at the water's edge and grab the fish from the Thames, which runs past Hie edge of the garden. But usually they wait for their mistress to take out rod and line. Then they all troop down to the river behind her and sit around complacently, jAn average catch is eight to ten an : hour. • Whisky, a tine large black and white I torn, baby of the family, is the best fisherman. He keeps his eyes on the float. Sometimes ho knows there is a catch before his mistress. Mrs King lias bred all seven eats. They are related, and all are toms. They never fight over a catch when it is flicked out of the waler. The one nearest takes the fish from the lino, kills it. and the others look on patiently. They know their turn will come. One dav Mrs King landed 85. so they knew there is plenty for all.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1940, Page 6
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