"approached. Although Hodge was not Johnson's only cat, it was Hodge whom he considered his favourite. Hodge was remembered in various forms, from biographical mentions during Johnson's life to poems written about the cat. On his death, Hodge's life was celebrated in ""An Elegy on The Death of Dr Johnson's Favourite Cat"" by Percival Stockdale (published 1778). In this poem the phrase ""sable furr"" indicates that Hodge was a black cat; also, the fact that Stockdale was Johnson's neighbour from 1769 onwards suggests that Hodge was alive at that time. Today Hodge is remembered by a bronze statue, unveiled by"
"at Lesbury on 14 September 1811, and was buried at Cornhill-on-Tweed.< Stockdale's major work was ""The Poet"" (1773), a poem. He wrote also: Stockdale famously eulogized Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge in his ""An Elegy on a Friend's Favourite Cat"". The poem appeared in the ""Universal Magazine"" for May 1771. Percival Stockdale Percival Stockdale (1736–1811) was an English poet, writer and reformer, active especially in opposing slavery. Born 26 October 1736 (O. S.) at Branxton, Northumberland, he was the only child of Thomas Stockdale, vicar of the parish and perpetual curate of Cornhill-on-Tweed, and his wife, Dorothy Collingwood of Murton, Northumberland."
"Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for ""The Little White Horse"". She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. Goudge gained renewed attention decades later. In 1993 one of her books was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the ""new"" novel set in India garnered rave reviews in both ""The New York Times"" and ""The Washington Post"" before its"
"Foss (cat) Foss (c. 1873 – November 1887), formally named Aderphos, was the pet cat of Edward Lear, the 19th-century author, illustrator, and poet. A stumpy-tailed, portly, and unattractive tabby cat, he was a favourite of Lear's and played an important role as a companion in the poet's lonely later years. Foss is mentioned frequently in Lear's correspondence and makes an appearance in his illustrations and at least one poem. Foss is said to have been the inspiration for the pussycat in Lear's illustrations for his poem ""The Owl and the Pussycat"". The funeral that Lear provided for Foss, which"
"Harry Horse Richard Horne, whose pen name was Harry Horse (9 May 1960, Coventry – 10 January 2007, Papil, West Burra), was an English author, illustrator and political cartoonist. He was also known as lead singer of the band Swamptrash. Born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, he moved to Edinburgh in 1978, where he adopted his pen name. His first book, ""Ogopogo, My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster"", was published in 1983. He also wrote ""The Last..."" series of books; this included ""The Last Polar Bears"", which was adapted into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV and a touring theatre"
"as ""the sage"" by some (including the narrator) and as ""Gapa"" by his granddaughter, spends his time mainly with, and for, his pets—his albino sow, Daisy, his cat, Alice, and his goose, Ted. He describes himself as ""a bit stiff about the joints these days"", he has some difficulty climbing steps, has poor eyesight, is deaf in one ear and almost deaf in the other, and has recently had problems with his memory. In addition, one of his idiosyncrasies consists in putting all the post he gets in a big trunk without opening any of it, ever. Edge, one of"
"Dear Socks, Dear Buddy Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets is a 1998 children's book written by First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton. It concerns the two pets that lived in the White House during the Clinton administration, Socks the cat and Buddy the dog. The book includes more than 50 letters written to the First Pets by children and more than 80 photographs of Socks and Buddy. Examples of questions that letters asked include, ""Who do you like best? Mr. Clinton? Mrs. Clinton or Chelsea?"" and, ""How do you like being a"
"no evidence that any of Hemingway's Cuban cats were polydactyl. Hemingway started with a gray Angora cat obtained in Key West from a breeder, named Princessa (middle cat in photo) and later in 1942 picked up two male Cuban kittens named Good Will and Boise (left and right cats in photo). Hemingway was to write extensively about the habits of Boise. By 1943, the cat population at the Finca numbered 11. When Mary Hemingway moved into the Finca in 1946, she had a writer's workshop tower constructed on the property, but Hemingway preferred to work in his bedroom, and the"
"(including letters from Christopher Isherwood and John Gielgud). Pongo, the canine protagonist of ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"", was named after Smith's own pet Dalmatian, the first of nine. Smith got the idea for her novel when a friend remarked of her own dalmatians: ""Those dogs would make a lovely fur coat!"" The story was adapted by Disney as a 1961 animated film, ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"". Smith wrote a sequel published in 1967, ""The Starlight Barking"". Dodie Smith Dorothy Gladys ""Dodie"" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English children's novelist and playwright, known best"
"Mike (cat) Mike (1908 – January 1929) was a cat who guarded the gates of the British Museum whose fame was such that ""Time"" magazine devoted two articles to him on his death. E. A. Wallis Budge's work describing the life of Mike has been viewed as the zenith of such biographical writing. In the spring of 1908 ""Black Jack"", the house cat of the Museum, walked up to the Keeper of Egyptian antiquities E. A. Wallis Budge with a large object in his mouth which he then deposited at the Keeper's feet. The object was a kitten, later known"
"Clinton acquired another chocolate Lab whom he named ""Seamus"". First Lady Hillary Clinton wrote a children's book called ""Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets"" in 1998. It included excerpts from more than 50 letters written to the First Pets by children and more than 80 photographs of Socks and Buddy. Buddy was a central character in Rick Cleveland's 2005 one-man show ""My Buddy Bill"", relating the writer's fictional friendship with Bill Clinton, which began when both men discovered their common interest in dogs. Buddy (dog) Buddy (August 7, 1997 – January 2, 2002), a male chocolate-colored"
"every three months. Upon hearing this, Holmes invited Cherith Baldry into the team in order to keep up with the schedule. Holmes says she chose Baldry because ""her natural writing style was quite close to mine and Kate's, so I knew that Cherith's voice would fit"". Afterwards, Holmes began to like the idea of using cats, since she realized how thoughtful they can be in leading private lives without any humans realizing. The series is considered to be fantasy, and has also been labelled an ""animal adventure"". With two authors at the time, Holmes decided to publish the books under"
"Milton's poetry, he could not tolerate Milton's Puritan and Republican beliefs, feeling that they were contrary to England and Christianity. He was an opponent of slavery on moral grounds, and once proposed a toast to the ""next rebellion of the negroes in the West Indies"". Beside his beliefs concerning humanity, Johnson is also known for his love of cats, especially his own two cats, Hodge and Lily. Boswell wrote, ""I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat. Johnson was also known as a staunch Tory; he admitted to sympathies for the Jacobite cause during his"
"The Stray Dog (short story) ""The Stray Dog"" (, ""Sag-e Velgard"") is a short story by Iranian writer Sadegh Hedayat, first published in 1942 along with seven other short stories in the book of the same name. Pat is a Scottish breed dog with two intelligent human eyes. He misses his puppyhood, when he could drink his mother's milk without any difficulties. He used to play with his brother and with his master's son. One day, Pat's master and two others got into an automobile, called Pat and put him beside them in the car. A few hours later they"
"The Little White Horse The Little White Horse is a low fantasy children's novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by the University of London Press in 1946 with illustrations by C. Walter Hodges, and Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1992. Coward–McCann published a US edition next year. Set in 1842, it features a recently orphaned teenage girl who is sent to the manor house of her cousin and guardian in the West Country of England. The estate, village, and vicinity are shrouded in mystery and magic; the ""little white horse"" is a unicorn. Goudge won the annual Carnegie Medal from the"
"Socks (novel) Socks is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary, originally illustrated by Beatrice Darwin, and published in 1973. It won the William Allen White Children's Book Award. The title character of the book would eventually become the name for Socks Clinton, the cat of U.S. President Bill Clinton and family. The story is told from the perspective of a tabby cat with four white paws who lives with a young married couple, Bill and Marilyn Bricker. Initially, Socks and the Bricker couple are alone, and Socks receives a great deal of love and attention as a result. However,"
"attributed to Fielding, although most likely by William Guthrie) first printed in 1760, ""The Life and Adventures of a Cat"", whose hero is called ""Tom the Cat""; before this time male cats were generally called ""ram-cats"" or ""gib-cats"" rather than ""tomcats"". Scottish cat names included ""Baudrons"" or ""Baudrans"", an affectionate term equivalent to ""puss"". The word appears to be related to the dialect term ""bawd"" used for the European hare, much as the dialect names ""puss"", ""furze cat"" and ""mawkin"" were also recorded for the hare. In Wales, ""titw"" was used as a similar affectionate term for cats. By the"
"Peter, the Lord's cat Peter, the Lord's cat (1950 – 5 November 1964), also known as The Marylebone mog, was a cat who lived at Lord's Cricket Ground in London from 1952 to 1964. He is the only animal to be given an obituary in the standard cricket reference book, ""Wisden Cricketers' Almanack"". The obituary appeared in the 1965 edition of Wisden, under the name ""CAT, PETER"". It described him as ""a well-known cricket-watcher"" who ""could often be seen prowling on the field of play""; he ""loved publicity"" and ""frequently appeared on the television"". Despite this, it seems that no"
"Albert. The 1969 novella was written by Harlan Ellison. The 1975 film was directed by L.Q. Jones. Albert Payson Terhune first published short stories about his collie Lad, titled ""Lad Stories"", in various general-interest magazines, including ""Red Book"", ""Saturday Evening Post"", ""Ladies' Home Journal"", ""Hartford Courant"", and the ""Atlantic Monthly"". The first of his novels about his dogs, ""Lad: A Dog"", collected a dozen stories of his collie Lad in novel form. ""Lad"" was followed by over 30 additional dog-focused novels, including two additional books about Lad. Published in 1919, the novel was a best seller in both the adult"
"earthquake.) The television mini-series ""Moonacre"" and the 2009 film ""The Secret of Moonacre"" were based on ""The Little White Horse"". Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for ""The Little White Horse"". She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. Goudge gained renewed attention decades later. In 1993 one of her books was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the"
"directed toward Grace Coolidge – was achieved by feeding it candy from Coolidge's hand throughout the portrait sittings. The life-size painting is featured in the White House China Room. Rob Roy (dog) Rob Roy (1922–1928) was a white male collie owned by Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's favorite pet, he was acquired by Grace Coolidge in 1922 after she became enamored with collies, having seen one of the breed perform in a circus. He later lived with the family in the White House. Rob Roy was immortalized in a Howard Chandler Christy portrait of Grace Coolidge. He died in 1928 after a"
"to the right of the painting, wearing Graham's wig, apparently reading from a sheet of music resting against a wine glass. Hogarth was disparagingly nicknamed the ""Painter Pugg"", but Hogarth continued to use the dog as his trademark in a satirical 1763 engraving ""The Bruiser"", based on his 1745 self-portrait with Trump. ""The Bruiser"" (a copy of which is held by the United States' National Gallery of Art) replaces Hogarth's portrait with the satirist Charles Churchill, lampooned as a drunken bear, while the dog urinates on a copy of the ""Epistle"" published by Churchill in support of John Wilkes, which"
"unable to draw and in early 1997 he and his partner moved out of London to Wiltshire in the English countryside. Although throughout this period Hodges was much less prolific than in his earlier years, he spent a lot of time updating older drawings and releasing them as limited edition signed prints. When in 1997, following his friend's death, Hodges drew ""Supreme (1997)"", a Siberian tiger, it was to become his largest edition size of 1,950, selling out before being issued. The drawing was dedicated to his friend Paul Delapenha and named ""Supreme"" because of Delapenha's love of the motown"
"Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth Time Cat (1963) is a fantasy novel by Lloyd Alexander, an American writer of more than forty books, primarily fantasy fiction for children. It was his first children's fantasy. Alexander succeeded on his first try writing fantasy for children, which he later called ""the most creative and liberating experience of my life."" The book was ""Time Cat"" (1963), a fantasy inspired by one of his pet cats, Solomon. Solomon would visit the office while Alexander was working, but the author would never see him come or go. He recalled in 1999:"
"criticised Hogarth. Hogarth's strong identification with his dog led Paul Sandby to caricature Hogarth as a pug in his 1753 engraving ""Puggs Graces"". In 2001, a statue of Hogarth with Trump, made by Jim Mathieson, was unveiled by Ian Hislop and David Hockney on the Chiswick High Road, close to Hogarth's House, the artist's residence from 1749 until his death in 1764. Trump (dog) Trump (c. 1730 – c. 1745) was a pug owned by English painter William Hogarth. The artist included the dog in several works, perhaps most famously his self-portrait ""Painter and his Pug"", held by the Tate"
"were crying over his body on the veranda. In 1915, Albert Payson Terhune penned his first canine short story, ""His Mate"", basing the main canine character on his real-life Rough Collie Lad. After the short story's publication in the January 1916 issue of ""Red Book Magazine"", Terhune began writing additional short stories. The ""Lad Stories"" were published in the ""Saturday Evening Post"", ""Ladies' Home Journal"", ""Hartford Courant"" and the ""Atlantic Monthly"", though ""Red Book"" remained the most consistent purchaser of the stories. Terhune collected twenty of the stories into a novel form, publishing it as ""Lad: A Dog"" in 1919,"
"book, entitled ""Love From Paddington"", would be published that autumn. In a film, ""Paddington"" (2014), based on the books, Bond had a credited cameo as the Kindly Gentleman. Bond also wrote another series of children's books, the adventures of a guinea pig named Olga da Polga, named after the Bond family's pet, as well as the animated BBC television series ""The Herbs"" (1968). Bond also wrote culinary mystery stories for adults, featuring Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound, Pommes Frites. Bond wrote a ""Reflection on the Passing of the Years"" shortly after his 90th birthday. The piece was read by"
"Country Beagle was kept by the ""dashing class of sportsman"" because it could ""run down a brace [of hare] before dinner"", but although a good scent hound, was probably lacking in this ability when compared to the delicate nose of the Southern Hound. The writer and poet Gervase Markham, who wrote a number of books on animal husbandry in the early 17th century described the North Country Beagle as having: In his ""The Dog, in Health and Disease"" in 1859, ""Stonehenge"" (the pen name of John Henry Walsh, later editor of ""The Field"") says the two breeds could be differentiated"
"the son of the vicar of the Parish of Malmesbury. She learnt to read and write from her mother and was tutored by a Mr Carter and a governess. Some of her early influences were the books by Ernest Thompson Seton. Her early books were based on experience in taking care of wild animals and these included ""Tommy White-Tag, the fox"" (1912) followed by more personal titles in a series called ""The Library Of Animal Friends"" which included ""Tom, my peacock""; ""Moses, my otter"" (1927) and ""Katie, my roving cat"" (1930). In ""Diana, My Badger"" published in 1929, she described"
"club, the shop acted as a hub for all of Hayward's clients when in London. Tea or something stronger was often served and the coffee table was littered with autographed copies of books written by writer clients including Joseph Heller who wrote Catch 22 Doug's favourite book. There was also a collection of teddy bears, a gift from his client Ralph Lauren, whose later Purple Label line was inspired and advised by Hayward. but Hayward's best pal was his Jack Russell terrier Burt who had his own made to measure suits. Client Michael Parkinson said of the shop: Hayward's client"
"Rob Roy (dog) Rob Roy (1922–1928) was a white male collie owned by Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge's favorite pet, he was acquired by Grace Coolidge in 1922 after she became enamored with collies, having seen one of the breed perform in a circus. He later lived with the family in the White House. Rob Roy was immortalized in a Howard Chandler Christy portrait of Grace Coolidge. He died in 1928 after a short illness. Rob Roy was acquired by Calvin Coolidge's wife, Grace Coolidge, in 1922 from Island White Kennels in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Grace Coolidge had reportedly become enthralled by collies"
"its owner's embarrassment, that the dog's name was Thurber. He suggests, by way of revenge, that the reader name his dog Stong. Stong published more than forty books. He died at his home in Washington, Connecticut, in 1957. Stong is buried at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Keosauqua. Asked in 1951 to comment on humanism, Stong responded: ""I’ve never gone deeply enough into any of the various definitions of “humanism” to be able to make any intelligent or instructive comment on the subject. When I read any of these tenuous expositions, they remind me (a) of the blind men and the"
"companion cat. The novel was written at Montgomery's house, ""Journey's End""; the environment influenced Montgomery's writing to create a positive setting for Jane in Toronto. The unusual episode in chapter 37 involving a lion was based on a similar incident Montgomery had been aware of that had occurred in Atlantic Canada several years before, which she detailed in a letter to GB MacMillan on February 23, 1938. On April 17, 1939, she began working on a new Jane book, but the sequel was never completed. Jane Victoria Stuart, called Victoria by her family, lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her mother,"