The Archive · 1939

Torpedoed Tomeat Finds New Home

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER — Stockholm Cat Fanciers G Mai

Of Shipwrecked "Tawny"

"Tawny" isa scrawny but companionable tomcat, British by birth, who has been rescued from three shipwrecks and is at present awaiting liberation from a concrete quarantine cell in the Swedish port of Gothenburg, where Board of Health regulations require him to stay four months in isolation after his strangest rescue of all.

He has the. distinction of being mentioned in a dispatch to the British Admiralty, and when his liberation comes—the combined efforts of a number of Stockholm animal lovers Did fair to-shorter those four months io as many weeks—"Tawny" will be the only free survivor of a British torpedoed off the

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