Show CATS GATS UNGRATEFUL HOSPITAL PATIENTS i They Are Not Nearly So Appreciative Appreciative dative as s Injured Dogs I I The little red ambulance ha had Just ro- ro c turned from froni rom a call The Thc two two- Shetland n ponies Pl champed bits and pawed the thc floor loor twenty dogs doss In the boxlike wards ards barked larked a welcome to the thc new arrival He Hc wa was lifted tenderly from the soft of oC tho the ambulance carried Into he the dog hospital where a broken le leg was put ut In splints He Bc was bathed and fed and soon soomi was s fast In a a. little box ward wId of oC his own The Tho cat and do dog hospital at No 1617 Grand avenue Kansas s City Is 19 a a. new agency alne In the thc humane treatment of or dumb animals The building does not hot present a very attractive appearance but the patients act as If Ir they had very ery hl high h opinions of or the man In charge Di Dr 1 Vf W. II 11 Gatchell II says the Kansas Kangas City Star The do dog and cat ent ambulance was WM first used last latt September but as the tho calls became became be came more frequent a ft motor ambulance was ordered to take thc the place of tin tin- ponies The Thc ambulance now used resembles re resembles re- re the thc ordinary monkey ca cage e seen In itt circus parades It has two compartments compartments compart compart- ments a largo one for thc the dose dogs and a smaller one for the cats On the time box are seats for th the driver and the emergency surgeon Homeless cats eats and dogs unaccustomed to the thc call o of a mistress or tho the whistle of or a master are cared for for- foras as tenderly as the thc more marc fortunate pets It was as for foi the thc care of the thc dumb waifs that Dr Gatchell established the tho hospital and put Into commission com corn mission the thc on only ambulance of It Its kind In the thc West Wealthy owners of or patients pa pa- arc are charged a n regular hospital fee Ice but on the thc books book no charges arc are made for 01 the care of time the homeless dogs and cats The dogs and cats are arc sold sometimes for enough to 10 pay for their treatment Visitors vcr very often become attached to a waif wait and pa pay the hospital fee Several of oC the thc most aristocratic do does docs s of or Kansas CIt City once were patients here an attendant said They were picked up upon upon upon on the thc streets treet half haIr starved and suffering suffer suffer- ing from bruises but their appearance was changed after a Short sta stay and proper prop prop- er attention Now ow they're the thc petted companions of wealthy persons At P present twenty dogs dogg representing man many different breeds arc are being cared cored for or b by Dr Gatchell and his assistants Tho wards are arc arranged In tiers like prison cell cells The They arc are kept clean new nc straw Is put In them ever every morning and thc the water hi In time the little pans Is sterilized Sometimes we have C forty arty rl tift or fifty patients pa pa- louts In the thc wards the thc attendant said When the thc wards on the thc main floor are arc filled filed we send n new patients to the re reserve reserve reserve re- re serve se wards In itt the basement The Thc cats eats arc not so 80 common as the thc dogs doss Generally Generall the they are arc are more fortunate In getting homes Most of or tho the cat patients patients pa pa- arc are carried Into thc the office b by fashionably lash ash dressed women Time The women omen al always always always al- al ways cry at the thc parting but the contented contented con con- tented purr of 01 the thc cat usually changes coe to yowls and amid cries when the thc doctor at at- at tempts to care for tor or them Cats arc tho the r most ungrateful uns patients we tr try to help I In the thc office olce of oC the hospital the walls wails of which are arc lined with shelves filled with bottles and medical appliances an Irish terrier a lean greyhound and a u. abrown brown rown spaniel were lying hIns hInson on tho loom floor Tl They licy c v. v wore were rc r recuperating Sharp yelps wore were heard nl from an nn In ono one corner cor ncr ner of or the room I P r Pat t l In Parlor A A. A Dr Gatch Gatch- cli said He lie stole the time greyhounds greyhound's dinner din din- ner nor and was locked up as a punish ment meaL |