Our cat and Frank Buck

The first December we were married we went to Omaha to visit our friends Gabe Parks and his wife. We had a room at the Hotel Paxton which cost us $10.42. On the way back home to Topeka we saw a kitten in the middle of the road and we brought it home with us. We named it Bobby. We did not have him long but he made the paper twice. Frank Buck, the animal trainer and hunter, was in town. He had come to present his motion picture. The Capital photographer took him with our cat and are cat scratched him. Ray and the photographer had taken him to Frank Bucks' hotel room. Buck had picked the cat up by the scuff of his neck. The cat did not know how famous the man was so turned and scratched him. The picture was picked up and run in many other papers. I think Bobby did not speak to other cats for weeks. Somehow after that Bobby hurt his leg and we had to take him to the vet. When we called to see how he was doing. They told us his doctor was out right now so they would not tell us how the cat was. Soon after that Bobby ran away. To you who were not privileged to know about Frank Buck. He was known as an animal trainer "who brought them back alive".