p. 84 ‘only a few redundant …’ The Times, 14 October 1939 (p. 4).
PART TWO: THE MINISTRY OF PETS
Chapter 9: Pets Get the Blame
p. 91 ‘grave concern …’ The Times, 1 January 1940 (p. 14).
p. 92 ‘Even dogs …’ The Times, 8 January 1940 (p. 12).
p. 92 ‘It was always after …’ Western Morning News, 23 February 1940 (p. 3).
p. 92 ‘The Market was also …’ ibid.
p. 92 ‘Although not affected …’ ibid.
p. 92 ‘The black-out had …’ Western Morning News, 5 January 1940 (p. 3).
p. 93 ‘This curious war …’ The Animals’ Defender, December 1939 t/s in M-OA T C 79.
p. 93 ‘The aim of …’ The Times, 6 January 1940 (p. 8).
p. 93 ‘NARPAC Caught …’ The Animals’ Defender, March 1940 (p. 86).
p. 94 ‘highly inflammable …’ 4 March 1940 (TNA HO 186/1418).
p. 94 ‘looking for its master …’ Daily Mail, 14 February 1940 (p. 7).
p. 94 ‘five white ferrets …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 58).
p. 94 ‘His cat, Whiskers …’ PDSA News, March 1940 (p. 1).
p. 95 ‘but he arrived safely …’ Daily Mail, 28 March 1940 (p. 7).
p. 95 ‘a frightened tabby …’ Our Dogs, June 1942 (p. 752).
p. 96 ‘tragic and unspeakably heroic …’ The Animals’ Defender, March 1940 (p. 86).
p. 96 ‘the faithful little …’ ibid.
p. 98 ‘Wartime Aids …’ (pp. 13–18) ‘Wartime Food for Dogs and Cats’ (TNA HO 144/21418).
p. 98 ‘This country has not reached …’ The Animal World, March 1941 (p. 21).
p. 99 ‘the majestic rise of the vegetarian …’ Hageby op. cit. (p. 38).
p. 100 ‘Adolf’ the Aardvark Evening Standard, 23 September 1942 (ZSL Newscuttings vol. 37).
p. 100 ‘dreadful people …’ Tail-Wagger Magazine, December 1939 (p. 372).
p. 100 ‘would fall on the lower classes …’ ‘The Feeding of Dogs’ (para. 7), 22 July 1941 (MAF 84/61).
p. 101 ‘Some will take pieces …’ ‘Tortoises in Wartime’, The Animal World, August 1940 (p. 68).
p. 101 ‘Away goes our last source of imported …’ Turner op. cit. (p. 123).
p. 101 ‘Our hobby …’ ibid.
p. 102 ‘He was treated with …’ Fred Gluckstein (www.winstonchurchill.org-churchills-feline-menagerie).
p. 102 ‘Nelson will follow …’ Washington Post, 7 June 1940 (p. 8).
p. 102 ‘became the pet of …’ 4 March 1965 (TNA BA 20/39).
p. 103 ‘Mr J. Umbo …’ (TNA CAB 150/7).
p. 103 fn ‘allergic to cats’ Nerin E. Gun, Eva Braun: Hitler’s Mistress L. Frewin, London, 1969 (p. 212).
Chapter 10: The Dunkirk Dogs
p. 104 ‘We passed through village …’ 2nd Lt E. J. Haywood writing in 1946. (www.worcestershireregiment.com).
p. 105 ‘Shooting the dogs …’ Edward Oates in 2010 (ww2history.com/testimony/Western/British_soldier_Dunkirk).
p. 105 ‘pitiful procession of refugees …’ The Animal World, November 1940 (p. 77).
p. 105 ‘large numbers of dogs …’ Moss op. cit. (p. 113).
p. 106 ‘knowing with …’ ibid.
p. 106 ‘Boxer …’ Bourne, They Also Serve (p. 82).
p. 106 ‘There was a little dog …’ Ordinary Seaman Stanley Allen, IWM Interview 6825 (http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80006641).
p. 106 ‘evacuated a very special person …’ Stockport Libraries, (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a2314216.shtml).
p. 106 ‘One of the little …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940.
p. 106 ‘Men of the French …’ ibid.
p. 107 ‘a large, fierce-looking …’ Tail-Wagger Magazine, July 1940.
p. 107 ‘returned …’ The Cat, June 1940 (p. 1).
p. 107 ‘All along the Thames …’ RSPCA Report for 1940 (p. 10).
p. 108 ‘after Dunkirk was …’ IWM Allen, op. cit.
p. 108 ‘Where the owners …’ RSPCA Report for 1940 (p. 10).
p. 108 ‘there were many …’ The Animal World, July 1940 (p. 59).
p. 108 ‘been segregated …’ The Animal World, July 1940 (p. 60).
p. 109 ‘Many dogs attached …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 30).
p. 109 ‘there was not just …’ ibid.
p. 109 ‘not a little difficulty …’ RSPCA Report for 1940 (p. 10).
p. 110 ‘Fortnum …’ PDSA News, June 1942 (p. 5).
p. 110 ‘the last dog from Dunkirk …’ RSPCA Report for 1940 (p. 10).
p. 110 ‘Nora …’ ibid.
p. 111 ‘The Dogs from Dunkirk …’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 110, summer 1940.
Chapter 11: Three Million Dogs to Die
p. 112 ‘felt they had nothing …’ 10 June 1940 (TNA HO 186/2075).
p. 112 ‘to protect the public …’ ibid.
p. 113 ‘The following towns …’ (TNA HO 186/350).
p. 113 ‘had arranged with …’ Kean, Animal Rights (p. 192).
p. 113 ‘beloved ginger cat …’ Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, 1985 (p. 192).
p. 114 ‘The man who …’ Colin Perry, Boy in the Blitz, 1980 (p. 13).
p. 114 ‘animals’ true friend …’ Reichtierschutzblatt, May 1940 (http://elib.tiho-hannover.de/dissertations/bergb_ws08.pdf).
p. 114 ‘a French battlefield stray …’ ibid. February 1941.
p. 114 ‘fundamental rottenness …’ Anger Campaign (p. 27, TNA FO 898/5).
p. 115 ‘Three Million Dogs’, The Times, 13 June 1940 (p. 6).
p. 115 ‘was more upset …’ Martina Corfe (Mass-Observation diarist D5285).
p. 115 ‘a newsboy …’ Helena Datz (Mass-Observation diarist D5294).
p. 116 ‘Can it be true?’ Thelma Gray, The Dog World, 21 June 1940 (p. 577).
p. 116 ‘These two Nazi officials …’ ibid.
p. 116 ‘It must have been with …’ The Dog World, 21 June 1940 (p. 577).
p. 116 ‘They have shared …’ ibid.
p. 116 ‘glycerine and the fertilisers …’ 24 June 1940 (TNA HO 186/1418).
p. 117 ‘training experiments …’ Hansard, 21 May 1940.
p. 117 ‘British Government …’ The Dog World, 3 May 1940 (p. 414).
p. 118 ‘A dog trained to do …’ Richardson, British War Dogs (p. 287).
p. 118 ‘When war broke out …’ 11 June 1940 (TNA WO 199/416).
p. 119 ‘whether he was aware …’ Hansard, 21 May 1940.
p. 119 ‘experimental work …’ The Dog World, 31 May 1940 (p. 509).
p. 119 ‘One could surely coach …’ The Dog World, 5 July 1940 (p. 625).
p. 119 ‘In my opinion …’ Our Dogs, 5 July 1940 (p. 810).
p. 119 ‘last remaining remount …’ The Times, 10 August 1940 (p. 2).
p. 120 ‘The green plover …’ Turner, op. cit. (p. 249).
p. 120 ‘Dogs and the Invader …’ NCDL pamphlet No. 469 Ballard, ‘A Dog is For Life’ (p. 68).
p. 120 ‘Poultry and rabbits …’ 8 August 1940 (TNA HO 186/1224).
p. 120 ‘for animal control …’ War Cabinet Home Policy Committee, 29 June 1940 (TNA CAB 75/8 6398).
p. 121 ‘A room for cats …’ 16 July 1940 (TNA AN 2/29).
p. 121 ‘personally enlisting …’ The Veterinary Record, 13 July 1940 (p. 519).
p. 122 ‘The worst time …’ PDSA News, June 1942 (p. 3).
p. 122 ‘veterinary officers …’ 13 July 1940 (TNA HO 186/1419).
p. 123 ‘As there was no room …’ The War Illustrated, 19 July 1940 (p. 40).
p. 123 ‘All our animals’ Evacuation from Guernsey’ by Betty Hervey (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/39/a2871939.shtml).
p. 123 ‘the squealings of …’ Our Dogs, 5 July 1940 (p. 810).
p. 124 ‘We must bestir ourselves …’ ibid.
p. 124 ‘Fears are exp
ressed …’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 116, summer 1940 (p. 5).
p. 124 ‘We rejoice that American …’ Popular Dogs, July 1940 (www.adpef.org/breed_development/first.../popular_dogs_July-1940).
Chapter 12: No Cat Owner Need Worry
p. 125 ‘Penal Offence’ Gloucestershire Echo, 6 August 1940 (p. 6).
p. 126 ‘nature of a warning …’ ibid.
p. 126 ‘sheltered sunny positions …’ (TNA MAF 84/57 7041).
p. 126 ‘Mickey’ Longmate, op. cit. (p. 222).
p. 127 ‘wasting human food …’ (TNA MAF 84/57 6945 5982).
p. 127 ‘It does not seem possible …’ The Animal World, September 1940 (p. 79).
p. 127 ‘is it antipatriotic …?’ The Cat, September 1940 (p. 111).
p. 128 ‘people have found …’ Daily Mirror, 8 January 1940 (p. 7).
p. 128 ‘Feeding Dogs and Cats’, The Duchess of Hamilton and Louise Lind-af-Hageby, The Times, 12 August 1940 (p. 6).
p. 129 ‘many dogs are voluntary vegetarians …’ ibid.
p. 129 ‘the people’s food’ Farmers Weekly, 9 August 1940 (p. 13).
p. 129 ‘Stock casualties in Nazi raids’ Farmers Weekly, 23 August 1940 (p. 17).
p. 130 ‘There has been no …’ ibid.
p. 130 ‘Nazi bombs caused low buttermilk’ Farmers Weekly, 30 August 1940 (p. 17).
p. 131 ‘Dogs of Britain Fighter Fund’ Our Dogs, 23 August 1940 (p. 983).
p. 131 ‘Lady Johnson-Ferguson’ (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 131 ‘Two glorious days …’ 16 August 1940 (p. 273 http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/16-8-40).
Chapter 13: Blitz Pets
p. 133 ‘Item 1 – The Restriction’ 4 September 1940 (TNA 128/578).
p. 133 ‘dog racing and the maintenance of zoos …’ ibid.
p. 133 ‘Any drastic steps …’ ibid.
p. 133 ‘There should be no action …’ ibid.
p. 134 ‘Germany is presently …’ (TNA WO 186/350).
p. 134 ‘You must assume invasion …’ (TNA WO 186/350).
p. 135 ‘Tonight I have been registering …’ 29 July 1940 (M-O D5414).
p. 135 ‘Dogs left behind …’ 18 September 1940 TNA MEPO 2/6478.
p. 136 ‘again we had to open …’ ‘Our War Work’, PDSA News, June 1943 (p. 4).
p. 137 ‘His home was a mass …’ Bourne, op. cit. (p. 56).
p. 137 ‘Cats have some sixth …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 27).
p. 137 ‘but six cats …’ ibid. (p. 76).
p. 138 ‘An old man stopped me …’ Lind-af-Hageby, op. cit. (p. 25).
p. 138 ‘Dog belonging to Mrs H …’ ibid. (p. 26).
p. 139 ‘Trixie …’ ibid.
p. 141 ‘19,864 Cats’, Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 60).
p. 141 ‘after an absence of three …’ ibid.
p. 141 ‘deserted animals …’ ibid.
p. 141 ‘neither of them is afraid …’ The Dogs Bulletin, summer 1941 (p. 7).
p. 141 ‘Animal pets are frequently …’ M-O Summary of Situation in Shoreditch, 27 September 1940 (M-OA T C 79).
p. 142 ‘the shock of emerging …’ Longmate, op. cit. (p. 224).
p. 142 ‘Many piteous tales of cats …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 54).
p. 142 ‘to find new homes …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 57).
p. 143 ‘A monkey …’ ibid.
p. 143 ‘becoming abusive …’ ‘Dogs in Air-Raid Shelters’, Manchester Guardian, 4 October 1940 (p. 10).
p. 143 ‘because of the crass …’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 117, Christmas 1940 (p. 5).
p. 144 ‘This air-raid dog shelter …’ ibid.
p. 144 ‘a conspicuous and attractive …’ Lind-af-Hageby, op. cit. (p. 24).
p. 144 ‘Everywhere the poor folk …’ ibid.
p. 145 ‘He is all I have now …’ PDSA News, January 1941 (p. 2).
p. 145 ‘Such is the cleanliness …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 55).
p. 145 ‘She had also …’ ibid.
p. 146 ‘sentimental aspects …’ (TNA MAF 126/25 7072).
p. 146 ‘wholly won over …’ Longmate, op. cit. (p. 231).
p. 147 ‘At the end of their …’ Stafford Library, Kent (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/02/a8435702.shtml).
p. 147 ‘Chickens were killed …’ Mr Peter Johnson (http://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-livestock.htm.
p. 148 ‘Then my mother got these rabbits …’ (www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/ww2/rations1.htm).
p. 148 ‘One day one was killed …’ Longmate, op. cit. (p. 231).
p. 148 ‘never skinned a rabbit …’ ibid.
p. 148 ‘a large, fat, white rabbit …’ ibid.
p. 148 ‘My mum …’ (http://www.sarfend.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum).
Chapter 14: The Comfort of Pets
p. 149 ‘Readers may conclude …’ Anon t/s in RSPCA archive.
p. 149 ‘The writer has an old ginger cat …’ ibid.
p. 150 ‘I am suffering …’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 117, Christmas 1940 (p. 7).
p. 150 ‘which will be spun …’ The Dog World, 11 October 1940 (p. 919).
p. 151 ‘kitten seemed terrified …’ 13 November 1940 (M-O Diarist D5428).
p. 151 ‘went to a house soon …’ Moss, op. cit. (p. 42).
p. 151 ‘a very frightened and bedraggled tabby …’ ibid (p. 41).
p. 152 ‘carried her kittens one by one …’ ibid.
p. 152 ‘Underneath her …’ Daily Mirror, 8 October 1940 (p. 7).
p. 152 ‘Beauty’, PDSA News, April 1941 (p. 2).
p. 152 ‘Her sharp senses will …’ Dog World Annual, 1941.
p. 153 ‘No one knew …’ Bourne, op. cit. (pp. 158–9).
p. 153 ‘modest little dog …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 28).
p. 153 ‘Peggy … terrier of sorts’ Moss, op. cit. (p. 42).
Chapter 15: How is Your Pet Reacting?
p. 154 ‘How is your dog reacting?’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 117, Christmas 1940 (p. 6).
p. 154 fn ‘the demoralising wail …’ Churchill Archives (CHAR 20/10/13-14).
p. 154 ‘Cats are comparatively …’ PDSA News, October 1940 (p. 8).
p. 155 ‘My bees are frightened …’ Bee Craft, October 1940 (p. 185).
p. 155 ‘a bomb made …’ Bee Craft, November 1940 (p. 199).
p. 155 ‘crept under a sofa …’ ARP News, October 1941 (p. 25).
p. 155 ‘A pack of startled …’ ibid.
p. 155 ‘abandoned it …’ ibid.
p. 155 ‘All the women …’ George Orwell Diary, 17 September 1940 (p. 292) (http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/17-9-40).
p. 155 ‘also like this during raids …’ ibid.
p. 156 ‘Some people have …’ Tamworth Herald, 20 July 1940 (p. 2).
p. 156 ‘a really well trained …’ ARP News, May 1941 (p. 6).
p. 156 ‘A timid and excited …’ The Animal World, November 1940 (p. 92).
p. 156 ‘Animals are very sensible …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 63).
p. 156 ‘the engine became …’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 117, Christmas Number (p. 6).
p. 157 ‘My own Collie …’ ARP News, May 1941 (p. 6).
p. 157 ‘Badly trained dogs …’ ibid.
p. 157 ‘At the alert …’ Animals and Air Raids: A Study in Reactions Times, 14 October 1940 (p. 7).
p. 157 ‘miserably frightened …’ ibid.
p. 157 ‘Some parrots …’ ibid.
p. 157 ‘scattering downwards …’ ibid.
p. 158 ‘38 incendiary bombs’ ZSL Occurrences Book, 27 September 1940.
p. 158 ‘Twenty-four rhesus monkeys …’ ibid.
p. 159 ‘By a miracle …’ ‘Zoo Animals’ Calmness in Air Raids’, The Times, 2 December 1940 (p. 2).
p. 159 ‘A Zebra was liberated …’ ibid.
p. 15
9 ‘unease in the country …’ 16 October 1940 (TNA HO 144/21418).
PART THREE: PETS SEE IT THROUGH
Chapter 16: The Perils of NARPAC
p. 165 ‘sorry it had come to this …’ (TNA HO 186/2075).
p. 166 ‘suspicious of everyone …’ ibid.
p. 166 ‘wallowing in publicity …’ ibid.
p. 166 ‘Their leaders are without conscience …’ ibid.
p. 166 ‘extremists …’ ibid.
p. 166 ‘normal flow of legacies …’ ibid.
p. 167 ‘NARPAC has no legal existence …’ ibid.
p. 167 ‘not interested in any of it …’ ibid.
p. 168 ‘had taken over the staff at Harrison, Barber & Co. …’ ibid.
p. 169 ‘Harrison, Barber & Co.’, The Times, 20 March 1941 (p. 8).
p. 169 ‘could only dispose of’ (TNA MEPO 2/6589).
p. 169 ‘climbed out of …’ ibid.
p. 169 ‘finding homes’ ibid.
p. 169 ‘prevent an undertaker …’ 8 November 1940 (TNA HO 186/2075).
p. 170 ‘Instead of going mad …’ ‘Dogs and Cats Take Raids Calmly’, The New York Times, 26 November 1940 (p. 3).
p. 171 ‘in which certain …’ (TNA HO 186/2075).
p. 172 ‘That plaintive cry …’ PDSA News, December 1940 (p. 8).
p. 172 ‘I have rescued hundreds …’ Daily Mirror, 3 December 1940 (p. 11).
p. 172 ‘At midnight, a goat …’ Manchester Guardian, 13 January 1941 (p. 3).
p. 173 ‘wild, starving cats …’ Manchester Guardian, 11 January 1941 (p. 10).
p. 173 ‘these cats are wild and elusive …’ ibid.
p. 173 ‘the kindly owner of a local …’ The Dog World, 27 December 1940.
p. 173 ‘Puss placed her four …’ The Cat, June 1941 (p. 87).
p. 174 ‘a huge black Tom …’ ibid.
Chapter 17: Non-essential Animals
p. 176 ‘Throughout the country …’ Manchester Guardian, 7 January 1941 (p. 3).
p. 176 ‘Dusty, a cat from …’ ibid.
p. 176 ‘un-tethered the horses …’ LAPAVS News-Sheet, August 1941 (p. 1).
p. 177 ‘where farmers have found …’ Manchester Guardian, 7 January 1941 (p. 3).
p. 177 ‘killed two good plough horses …’ ibid.
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