Show chimpanzees poisonous snakes among 4 pets of Manhattan ites S NEW EW YORK if youre looking for common everyday pets like cats and dogs dont come to manhattan in this city of towers find as unique a collection of domesticated animals as ever answered to a masters summon J H harper a movie producer has as his constant companion a huge siberian husky which an alaskan friend sent him two years ago harper was broke at the time and the animal brought him so much mich notoriety that he secured financial backing for a new motion picture venture 6 tad the husky has acclimated himself perfectly to the hustling life of new york strange though it may be to a dog of his temperament he used to howl at the moon until harper began keeping him under the bed he feared stairs until he once conquered them then tad spent the next hour running up and down she likes apes mrs gertrude lintz of brooklyn dates her passion for chimpanzees to the day 20 years ago in vienna when she saw youngsters throwing stones at a frightened pair of apes in a zoo she was so impressed m with the way the male tried to shield his trembling mafe mat e that tha t she resolved to study them 1 I knew then that there was something within these humanlike animals that I 1 must mus come to understand she recalls today she has three female chimpanzees in in her home they live like humans arising early for breakfast walking through the lin lintz tz estate and taking regular baths its snakes with him harold J oconnell successful new york business man has snakes as his hobby most people have an aversion to them he admits but this feeling is not inherent babies can be given a small snake and they will show no tear fear whatever fear of snakes comes solely through the frightening stories told by mothers nurse maids and friends about the supposed evil nature of reptiles oconnell began collecting snakes many years ago housing them in his Z W I 1 v M ip PETS NOW BUT three lit tle tie lion cubs held in claire bal son sons s arms are cute now but wait until they grow zip up and start making faces at people home until mrs OCon nells patience finally ended then he rented a store building until the neighbors objected today housed in special quarters at the staten island zoo and their sponsor continues his trips to the wilds in search of new specimens theres still one species he captured a viper three times as venomous as a s any other in this hemisphere when he catches that he will feel his life is complete pets help an author fannie hurst the writer keeps as her pets a white cat a te terrier brier and a tiny marmoset she claims they help her with her work As a student at the university of washington she was expelled for refusing to dispose of her devoted terrier in subsequent years her friends have sent her monkeys a cockatoo a siamese cat and young tigers she liked all of them but there are limits to what you can keep in a manhattan apartment |