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frogmarch

(12,153 posts) Sun Jul 25, 2021, 12:45 PM Jul 2021

Ship mouser-cat certificate

1800s? 1900s?

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Ship mouser-cat certificate (Original Post) frogmarch Jul 2021 OP

11 lbs. at 8 months? Bet he got to be a big boy! Ocelot II Jul 2021 #1

only if he did his job and caught the mice rurallib Jul 2021 #2

I've been on a few ships where we had cats. cloudbase Jul 2021 #3

That's the mug shot of killer. zuul Jul 2021 #4

The issue date is 1-12-43, Sogo Jul 2021 #5

You're right, I'm sure. frogmarch Jul 2021 #7

I bet many of those cats went down with the ship. Fla Dem Jul 2021 #6

Ocelot II

(115,681 posts)

1. 11 lbs. at 8 months? Bet he got to be a big boy!

Reply to frogmarch (Original post)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 12:59 PM

Jul 2021

rurallib

(62,410 posts)

2. only if he did his job and caught the mice

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 01:11 PM

Jul 2021

cloudbase

(5,513 posts)

3. I've been on a few ships where we had cats.

Reply to frogmarch (Original post)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 01:13 PM

Jul 2021

The best was on the Eugene Obregon. He pretty much had the run of the bridge, and loved to sleep on the chart table.

zuul

(14,624 posts)

4. That's the mug shot of killer.

Reply to frogmarch (Original post)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 01:28 PM

Jul 2021

Herman ain’t playing.

Sogo

(4,986 posts)

5. The issue date is 1-12-43,

Reply to frogmarch (Original post)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 01:32 PM

Jul 2021

so I guess that means 1900s....

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)

7. You're right, I'm sure.

Reply to Sogo (Reply #5)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 01:58 PM

Jul 2021

Also, the certificate info is typed and the typewriter wasn't invented until 1868.

Fla Dem

(23,655 posts)

6. I bet many of those cats went down with the ship.

Reply to frogmarch (Original post)

Sun Jul 25, 2021, 01:48 PM

Jul 2021

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