The Omaha
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PART THREE
EDITORIAL
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Uncle Saiu'g men when the census, was taken,
it is safe to suy that Omaha's population
would be recorded as many thousand more
than the present figures show.
For the home that lacks a pet dog or cat, or
doesn't boast a sweet singing canary or a couple of
told fish, or at leaBt a few petted chickens, Is cer
tainly hard to find these days. If the grown folks
haven't a pet. the "kids" at least have some rab
bits or a puppy.
Pets are suib commonplace members of our
homes such essential paris of the family organi
zation that a household with one or more of them
is merely considered normal and regular. It Is the
petless home that is the exception.
But in spite of this fact, Omaha has not bad
an organization of pet owners until Just a few
weeks ago. Fanciers of pets finally got together,
and now the Omaha Pet Stock club is an active and
rapidly growing institution. It was organized in
the Interests of pet fanciers and their pets, and
anybody can belong to, It if they are at all inter
ested. It started with curbstone and street car
conversations among several people whose thoughts
mutually turned to a narrative of a dog's latest
cunning trick, an exclamation of pleasure over a
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biddy'a familiarity in pecking at an apple held by
Its owner.
Now the pet fanciers meet regularly at a cen
tral location In one of the public buildings to talk
ever their experiences, benefit by each other's
advice and boost for the harmless and educational
Lobby of keeping pets.
"It's surprising how many of Omaha's people
lots of prominent ones, too are owners of pets,"
says G. P. Wilg, 1810 Vinton street, president of
the new club.
But it's true. Omana Is a city of pets. From
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high officials to lowly citizens, from millionaires
u, office boys and cash girls, the deBire to own and
pet somothlng alive and interesting Is everywhere
evident. Nor is the pet fever confined to the com
moner varieties of pels. Almost evory conceivable
kind of animal and bird Is Included in the list, and
nany folks own them by the dozens, instead of
having just one.
And aren't the pets dearly loved and hishly
alud! Only recently a man weut to court to
recover damages because an auto ran over his dog.
And! what's more, the jury agreed with him and
awarded damages big enough to 'buy a whole pack
of dogs.
A chubby, black bear is on grunting terms with
our old pal, Gus Renze, and most of the other
henchmen of King Ak-Sar-Ben. Another bruin
welcomes the visit of City Commissioner Joe Hum
mel to Rlverview park, and likes to go walking and
tree-climbing with Keeper Robinson.
Mr. and Mrs. Gould Diet have a hobby of pick
ing up odd and curious animals and birds on their
world travels, and et present have a regular
menagerie in their back yard, including a Bouth
American llama, a monkey, a peacock, a giant
macaw, a fancy dog and a beautiful Persian cat
that boasts seven blue ribbons. They used to
have some kangaroos, too, but the latter d.ied. Mr.
and Mrs. C. N. Diets also ae lovers of pets and
wouldn't part with their Intelligent trained dog
fcr any consideration.
Each time Arthur D. Brandels returns to
Omaha he usually has a new pet to display. E. A.
Singer of the Brandels stores and bis wife also are
pet fanciers. Glen Wharton is another, belngspar
tlcularly fond of dogs.
Omaha, by the way, is distinctly on the dog
map. Dogs of various kinds owned by Omaha
people have many times won prizes at bench shows.
Uw Plxley had a setter that was nationally
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famous. Mrs. U. II. Moore, 2522 Maple street, has
h kennel of English toy spaniels that nave won so
n any blue ribbons she now measures the trophies
by the yard on big squares at felt. Harry B.
Fieharty of the city legal department has two
kinds of thoroughbred dogs, while Mrs. Fieharty
has some beautiful cats that are the envy of all her
acquaintances. Their home t 4173 Chicago
street is a regular dog aud cat show.
Toy poodles are the favorites of Mrs. C. T.
Creener, 4 724 North Fourteenth street, and she
has a number that are decidedly cute and well
trained. Mrs. T. Smith, 1810 North Seventeenth
street, also has a number of dogs of the toy variety.
Commercial club members who have dogs fre
quently seek the willing ear of Victor II. Paul, the
club's storekeeper, for he is an ardent dog fancier
and owns a thoroughbred English bulldog. Other
(!og owners Include Earl O'Brien of the Hensbaw,
Thomas Jones of the Millard, George M. French,
CI 8 South Twenty-seventh avenue; Charlie Ben-
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ganized here, and hundreds of others.
Among feathered pets none are as popular at
canaries. Mrs. George A. Joslyn takes great de
light in her little yellow songsters, and so do Mrs.
M. F. Funkbouser, Mrs. Oeorge M. Cooper and
many others. Parrots also have their champions.
Mrs. Charles Salter, wife of the chle? of the fire
department, has a parrot tba. .carries on a regular
conversation with her, and frequently perches on
. her shoulder to express his friendship. Whenever
the fire bell rings this bird lustily yells "Fire." r
Although more barnyard decorations and util
ity creatures than pets, chickens, ducks, geese and
turkeys also have been domesticated to such an
extent by some Omahans that they eat out of the
hand and follow their owners about like dogs. .
W. E. Baehr, secretary of the poultry associa
tion now holding a chicken show at the Audi
torium, firds that geese and turkeys make very
Interesting pets. The only trouble, be says, Is that
when Thanksgiving and Christmas come around
the owner of a pet fowl is liable to eat beefsteak
rather than kill the pet for the holiday table, as the
result of becoming so attached to it.
Mrs. II. A. Doud. 144 North Forty-first street,
has had a flock of handsome White Leghorns' for
a number of years. They are so tame that they
frequently fly onto her arm or shoulder and sing
their thanks for hot mash at noon. Whenever she
rppears In the yard all the chickens gather at the
' door of their pen and crane their necks In ex
pectancy, until she offers grain or an apple, which
they eat from hrr band. Incidentally, she says,
several thousand strictly fresh eggs a year come la
randy.
Ralph S. Doud raises guinea pigs by the yard
and bushel, frequently having several hundred at
a time. Me is secretary of the new Pet Stock club.
President Wilg of the club keeps fancy rabbits as
i hobby, and at Chicago recently exhibited one that
took a blue ribbon.
Other local rabbit and Belgian hare fanciers
include M. H. Fowler. 4 213 Larlmore avenue;
Charles K. Fisk, 929 South Fifty-third street; Dr.
James Richards, 1202 North Twenty-sixth street;
H. O. Vollmer, 4123 North Forty-second street;
A. D. Bullock, 416 North Thirty-sixth street, and
Dr. Alfred O. Peterson. Among well known
Omahans who keep goldfish as pets are Mrs. T. L.
Kimball, Miss Arabella Kimball and Thomas R.
Kimball.
Nor are the owners or pets the only ones Inter
ested In the hobby. Many an Omahan, without
room or facilities for'keeplng pets at home, finds
keen enjoyment in visiting Rlverview parfc and
matching the animals there. And, as Commissioner
Hummel says, "even animals that are naturally
wild will respond to kindness and attention, and
eventually become Quite tame and like to bj
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