PetsA Closer LookAuthor Charles Slattery wrote about Mary Whipple: “Moreover her love went out to dumb beasts. When a neighbour kept a young dog in a box and (according to Mrs. Whipple’s observant eye) forgot to feed it for days at a time, Mrs. Whipple would…give the poor beast food and water for the day. The cats and dogs knew her susceptibilities, and, when deserted, would come, dilapidated and forlorn, to her porch. In they were brought, tended, and fed as if babies in a nursery. If no owner appeared, they were given later, sleek and fat, to boys and girls who were thought to deserve them, and who would surely be kind. She always had a permanent cat and a permanent dog.”
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