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Originally Posted by chuckinca
On Da South Side of Chi town in the early 50's we had an alley cat and an alley dog that both lived in the shed off the alley. When we moved a few miles East they didn't make the trip. The dog was a long haired springer mix named Freckles. The cat was named Mama.
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Finally, one who had an alley cat. Just kidding.
My Ukrainian grandmother did have a houseful of cats and kittens.
I'm pretty sure she kept them as "mousers"........
I never saw her give them any "cat food" like we have nowadays, such as "Fancy Feast" out of a can, etc.
She only seemed to give them "evaporated milk out of a can"......in a little bowl.
I still remember visiting and sitting on a bench next to her big staircase that wound around to the upstairs. The kittens jumped on me from the top of the balcony and scared the heck out of me. I was about 4 years old. She's the only one I knew who had cats indoors.
My Italian relatives had no pets at all that I can recall except for the pigeons my grandmother had on the roof of her tenament.
I still don't know why they raised pigeons in New York City.