p. 178 ‘Owners of urban …’ The Times, 10 January 1941 (p. 2).
p. 178 ‘I fancy these leaflets …’ Manchester Guardian, 7 January 1941 (p. 3).
p. 179 ‘Five couple of hounds …’ Turner, op. cit. (p. 164).
p. 179 ‘made into glue …’ ibid.
p. 179 ‘Courtenay Tracey …’ 9 January 1941 (TNA MAF 79/8).
p. 179 ‘7,800 hounds have been …’ (TNA MAF 79/8).
p. 180 ‘We suggest that hunting …’ (TNA MAF 128/578).
p. 180 ‘I emphasise the political …’ ibid.
p. 181 ‘when all imports …’ (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 181 ‘the sole source …’ Hansard, 2 April 1941.
p. 181 ‘Why is the hunt allowed …’ Mrs Elsie Barnes, 25 January 1941 (TNA MAF 79/8).
p. 181 ‘Dogs and cats must subsist …’ (TNA MAF 128/578).
p. 181 ‘I think I am right …’ (TNA MAF 85/87).
p. 182 ‘seagulls, city pigeons etc.’ 26 March 1941 (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 182 ‘An increasing number …’ (M-O SxMOA1/2/79/1/A/1).
p. 182 ‘17,347 dogs destroyed’ (TNA MEPO 2/6957).
p. 182 ‘living in the paraffin shed’ Jenkins, A Home of Their Own (p. 175).
p. 183 ‘expert electrocutionist …’ 28 May 1941 Mrs M. Witherow to C. Pulling (TNA MEPO 2/6589).
p. 183 ‘There appears to be …’ (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 183 ‘a cat equilibrium …’ (TNA MAF 84/57 5857).
p. 183 ‘It seems possible that an attempt …’ The Cat, February 1941 (p. 1).
p. 184 ‘10–12 circuses …’ (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 184 ‘Watson’s Fox Terriers’ Tail-Wagger Magazine, March 1943 (p. 45).
p. 184 ‘As nations allow animals …’ Performing Animals (TNA HO 45/20552).
p. 185 ‘clearly indicated fear …’ Performing Animals (TNA HO 45/20552).
p. 185 ‘animals, dingoes …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 37).
p. 185 ‘unless this war …’ The Times, 11 March 1941 (p. 5).
p. 186 ‘Millions of people …’ (TNA MAF 79/8).
p. 186 ‘my section of …’ George Orwell diaries, 25 April 1941 (pp. 306–7, http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com).
p. 186 ‘Lord Woolton’s promise …’ The Evening News, 25 March 1941 (p. 1)
p. 186 ‘feeding of pigeons …’ ibid.
p. 187 ‘There should no …’ ‘Animal Feeding Stuffs. Dogs and Cats’, 1 April 1941 (TNA MAF 128/578 5684).
p. 187 ‘Interfering with …’ 22 July 1941 (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 187 ‘doing away with all …’ (TNA MAF 84/57 29 April 1941).
p. 187 ‘this applies to …’ Hansard, 2 April 1941.
p. 188 ‘Poultry-keepers …’ Glasgow Herald, 1 March 1941 (p. 1).
p. 188 ‘complete denial …’ Hansard, 30 April 1941.
p. 188 ‘far-reaching motive …’ The Cat, February 1941 (p. 66).
p. 188 ‘It is difficult to tell …’ ibid.
p. 189 ‘prepared to go to …’ ibid. (p. 67).
Chapter 18: Pets Under Fire
p. 190 ‘There was this scheme …’ NCDL, 17 March 1941 (M-OA T C 79).
p. 191 ‘In a case heard …’ The Cat, August 1941 (p. 122).
p. 191 ‘The rescue squad …’ Western Morning News, 24 June 1941 in LAPAVS News-Sheet, August 1941.
p. 192 ‘many cats destroyed …’ ibid.
p. 192 ‘Housewives take him …’ LAPAVS News-Sheet, May 1941 (p. 1).
p. 192 ‘Blackie’ Daily Mirror, 6 November 1941 (p. 4).
p. 192 ‘A cat buried for …’ PDSA News, June 1941 (p. 2).
p. 193 ‘Four days later …’ ibid.
p. 193 ‘cats, dogs, chickens …’ ibid.
p. 193 ‘It is worth mentioning that …’ Our Dogs, 14 June 1941 (p. 752).
p. 194 ‘I noticed a large …’ Smith, op. cit. (p. 49).
p. 194 ‘where she worked …’ ibid. (p. 63).
p. 195 ‘Florence Nightingale’ Daily Mirror, 20 September 1943 (p. 4).
p. 195 ‘a friend in London …’ The Cat, February 1941 (p. 62).
p. 195 ‘animal lover’ Smith op. cit. (p. 63).
p. 196 ‘Someone asked me …’ Lind-af-Hageby op. cit. (p. 24).
p. 196 ‘1,400 pets, mostly cats …’ RSPCA Report for 1941 (p. 16).
p. 196 ‘In one East End …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1940 (p. 57).
p. 196 ‘Cats are the most …’ The Veterinary Record, 5 July 1941 (p. 390).
p. 197 ‘has fed hundreds …’ Daily Mirror, 2 November 1940 (p. 3).
p. 197 ‘rather than see the pack cease …’ Daily Mail, 25 October 1941.
p. 198 ‘I remember Clydesdale …’ John Maude, 11 January 1941 (TNA KV 2/1684).
p. 199 ‘The Duke’s mother …’ ibid.
p. 199 ‘We had lots of voluntary …’ Smith, op. cit. (p. 45).
Chapter 19: Wanted – Dog Heroes
p. 201 ‘followed by another cat …’ Birmingham Mail, 19 April 1941 quoted in The Cat, July 1941 (p. 110).
p. 201 ‘a small cafe, with a nice cat …’ The Cat, September 1941 (p. 4).
p. 201 ‘My own two cats …’ ibid.
p. 202 ‘sprang up, ran full tilt …’ The Star, 28 March 1941, quoted in LAPAVS News-Sheet, May 1941 (p. 1).
p. 202 ‘The dog is a friend …’ LAPAVS News-Sheet, May 1941 (p. 1).
p. 202 ‘Once there they …’ The Siamese Cat Club News-Sheet, quoted in The Cat, October 1940 (p. 14).
p. 202 ‘that knew the difference …’ The Cat, June 1941 (p. 87).
p. 203 ‘The large majority of beasts …’ ‘War Time Reactions of Cats’, The Cat, February 1941 (p. 88).
p. 203 ‘It is, of course, difficult …’ ibid. (p. 89).
p. 203 ‘it seemed incredible …’ Lutz, op. cit. (p. 93).
p. 203 ‘soon realising …’ ibid.
p. 204 ‘When Nazi bombers …’ The Dogs Bulletin, No. 117, Christmas 1940 (p. 7).
p. 204 fn ‘Ome …’ The Dog World, 27 October 1939 (p. 709).
p. 205 ‘Throughout the country …’ The Veterinary Record, 5 July 1941 (p. 389).
p. 205 ‘Cats bombed out …’ ibid.
p. 205 ‘Cattle appear to take …’ ibid.
p. 205 ‘slept sonorously …’ ibid.
p. 206 ‘hither and thither …’ ibid.
p. 206 ‘The herding instincts …’ Clifford W. Greatorex, ARP News, October 1941 (p. 25).
p. 206 ‘where he stayed …’ ibid.
p. 206 ‘ordinary men and women …’ letter from ‘Not an Owner of Walthamstow’ in News Chronicle, 20 June 1941 (p. 2).
p. 206 ‘increased pro-doggism …’ Mass-Observation File Report 804, ‘Dogs in London’.
p. 206 ‘mongrels took it …’ ibid.
p. 207 ‘When I leave him …’ ibid.
p. 207 ‘I have been alone …’ ibid.
p. 207 ‘Nip’, ‘Bill’, ‘Bonzo’, ibid.
p. 207 ‘there should be more done …’ ibid.
Chapter 20: Pets on the Offensive
p. 208 ‘It would be impossible …’ (TNA WO 199/416).
p. 208 ‘The War Office invites …’ The Times, 6 May 1941 (p. 2).
p. 209 ‘Well, pals, here’s how …’ ‘The War and Us Dogs by Rex’, Tail-Wagger Magazine, September 1944 (p. 175).
p. 209 ‘will answer to Oi!’ PDSA News, August 1941 (p. 5).
p. 210 ‘full of dogs …’ Montague, op. cit. (p. 78).
p. 211 ‘smuggled out in boxes …’ ibid.
p. 211 ‘one little dog …’ ibid.
p. 211 ‘The platoon did not return …’ ibid. (p. 79).
p. 211 ‘babies were painlessly …’ Bourne, op. cit. (p. 75).
p. 211 ‘The grief-stricken owner …’ Montague, op. cit. (p. 81).
p. 212 ‘dogs circling …’ Horse & Hound, 1 January 1943 (p. 15).
p. 213 ‘I had lunch with …’ Colville, The
Fringes of Power, vol. 1 (p. 468).
p. 213 ‘with no statutory funding …’ (TNA HO 186/2075).
p. 214 ‘Although we could still …’ ibid.
p. 214 ‘I think it’s made him …’ (SxMOA1/1/6/7/35).
p. 214 ‘He kicks up an awful row …’ ibid.
p. 214 ‘so well mannered …’ ibid.
p. 214 ‘I used to have a dog …’ ibid.
p. 215 ‘I adored him …’ ibid.
p. 215 ‘When a country is …’ (M-OA TC79).
p. 215 ‘Rush to shop to get fish …’ 3 June 1944, Anon M-O diarist D5444.
p. 216 ‘There’s that notice up saying …’ (M-OA TC79).
p. 216 ‘in reply to inquirers …’ The Veterinary Record, 26 July 1941 (p. 441).
p. 216 ‘any interference with dogs and pets …’ (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 217 ‘the use of propaganda in the case of cats …’ 29 July 1941 (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 218 ‘the biggest cat …’ Manchester Evening Chronicle, 18 July 1941 (reported in The Cat, August 1941 (p. 122)).
p. 218 ‘you seem to think …’ 7 August 1941 (TNA MAF 48/757).
p. 219 ‘Wayward cats …’ Dig for Victory News, No. 68, 13 June 1941 in TNA MAF 48/757.
p. 219 ‘My Lord – I have a large bed of onions …’ (TNA MAF 48/757 6255).
p. 219 ‘peculiar black markings’ PDSA News, October 1941 (p. 10).
p. 220 ‘domestic cats live …’ Schwangart, Vom Recht der Katze (p. 15).
p. 220 ‘Nelson is the bravest …’ Reynolds, All About Winston Churchill (p. 148).
p. 221 ‘faux pas …’ The Cat, December 1941 (p. 33).
p. 222 ‘There seems to be little …’ (MAF 48/757 6468).
p. 222 ‘being somewhat …’ ibid.
p. 223 ‘All exhibitors and visitors …’ Worcester Dog Show (M-OA TC79/1/F).
p. 223 ‘Many wore riding …’ ibid.
p. 223 ‘even with a war on …’ PDSA News, October 1941 (p. 3).
p. 224 ‘As the war goes on …’ The Times, 16 December 1941 (p. 2).
p. 224 ‘See how elastic …’ The Official Home Office Cat, 22 January 1941 (TNA HO 223/43 6413).
p. 225 ‘whether a small daily ration of milk …’ Hansard, 26 November 1941.
p. 225 ‘Limited quantities …’ ibid.
p. 225 ‘work of national importance …’ The Times, 31 December 1941 (p. 2).
Chapter 21: Nationally Important Cats
p. 226 ‘Lord Woolton’s face can …’ Manchester Guardian, 1 January 1942 (p. 6).
p. 226 ‘extraordinarily fussy cat …’ ibid.
p. 226 ‘We must not be jealous …’ The Times, 8 January 1942 (p. 5).
p. 227 ‘a lenient view …’ ‘Feeding Our Pets in War Time’, The Animal World, December 1941 (p. 1).
p. 227 ‘Combings from almost every kind …’ The Dogs Bulletin, spring 1941 (p. 11).
p. 227 ‘rat watchers …’ (see TNA HO 196/2486).
p. 228 ‘Mopsy’ The Dogs Bulletin, spring 1942 (p. 5).
p. 229 ‘Welsh moss …’ The Field, 25 January 1947 in ZSL newscuttings.
p. 229 ‘even stepping into the dry …’ ‘Starving the Elephants: The Slaughter of Animals in Wartime Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo’, Frederick S. Litten (http://www.japanfocus.org/-frederick_s_-litten/3225).
p. 229 ‘Airedales and Alsatians …’ The Animal World, April 1942 (p. 1).
p. 230 ‘We can only use …’ Tail-Wagger Magazine, August 1945 (p. 145).
p. 230 ‘violent opposition …’ (TNA WO 199/416 7263).
p. 231 ‘never saw an English patrol dog …’ The Dog World, 3 May 1940 (p. 414).
p. 231 ‘useless …’ (TNA AVIA 9/15 7377).
p. 232 ‘He can get the necessary …’ ibid.
p. 232 ‘the thing we want the dog …’ ibid.
p. 232 ‘Plough Inn …’ ‘Working Dogs for the Protection of Aircraft’, 8 September 1941 (TNA WO 199/2061).
p. 233 ‘Any dog debarred …’ 9 July 1942 (TNA WO 199/416).
p. 233 ‘tattooing the ear flap …’ 5 March 1942 (TNA WO 199/416).
p. 233 ‘The public will be asked to lend them …’ 18 March 1942 (TNA WO32/10800).
p. 233 ‘the wastage will be …’ ibid.
p. 234 ‘to make a valuable …’ Draft Press Appeal (TNA WO32/10800).
p. 234 ‘over 6,000 owners …’ The Times, 14 January 1944 (p. 2).
p. 234 ‘I would be much obliged …’ (TNA WO32/10800).
p. 234 ‘The handler continually …’ ‘The Tactical Employment of War Dogs’, August 1942 (WO 199/416).
p. 235 ‘The team of eight dogs …’ 16 April 1942 (TNA AVIA 9/15).
p. 235 ‘that women who …’ Hansard, 4 March 1942.
p. 236 ‘a census of cats …’ ibid.
p. 236 ‘Are any steps …’ ibid.
Chapter 22: Too Many Poodles
p. 237 ‘The keepers of the forest …’ (TNA MAF 79/9).
p. 237 ‘Sanderstead and Coulsdon’ 22 May 1942 (TNA MAF 79/9).
p. 238 ‘Jowitt, your minister …’ (TNA PREM 4/2/11).
p. 238 ‘never seen a cattle …’ (TNA MAF 100/19).
p. 238 ‘unfair that every officer …’ (TNA MAF 100/19).
p. 239 ‘not want a long delay …’ 27 March 1942 (TNA MAF 100/21).
p. 239 ‘I understand that …’ ibid.
p. 239 ‘If there was no prosecution …’ 18 July 1942 (PREM 4/2/11).
p. 239 ‘The customers of Albion …’ The Times, 29 August 1942 (p. 2).
p. 240 ‘Goods have to be …’ April 1942 (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 240 ‘they are no longer …’ ibid.
p. 240 ‘It is not the intention …’ ‘The Feeding of Cats and Dogs in Wartime’ (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 240 ‘we might cause it to be known …’ 7 March 1942 (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 241 ‘other than strays …’ (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 241 ‘of the political implications …’ ibid.
p. 241 ‘not desirable that NARPAC …’ ibid.
p. 241 ‘We hear of a trainload …’ Lambeth Palace Library Archbishop Temple, 18 September 1942 (vol. 1 f329-332).
p. 242 ‘millions of useless cats …’ cutting in TNA MAF 84/61.
p. 242 ‘Humanely exterminate …’ ibid.
p. 242 ‘One Dog per family!’ ibid.
p. 242 ‘Too many cats …’ ibid.
p. 243 ‘dogs getting biscuits …’ ibid.
p. 243 ‘Nero, a dog the size of a horse …’ ibid.
p. 243 ‘while sporting dogs …’ Daily Mirror, 29 June 1942.
p. 243 ‘silly attacks …’ Lind-af-Hageby, op. cit. (p. 48).
p. 244 ‘They are friends …’ ibid.
p. 244 ‘Night Worker …’ Gloucestershire Echo, 10 September 1942.
p. 244 ‘the collecting dog …’ ibid.
p. 244 ‘too many poodles …’ Farmers Weekly, 23 October 1942.
p. 244 ‘we are a nation …’ ibid.
p. 245 ‘cake, Canadian apples …’ Daily Mail, 25 May 1942, ZSL Newscuttings.
p. 245 ‘fifty-one tins of pink salmon …’ Gloucestershire Echo, 29 October 1942.
p. 245 ‘Her servant was twice …’ Bristol Evening Post, 20 January 1943.
p. 245 ‘using flour in the form of sausage …’ (TNA CRIM 1/1450).
p. 246 ‘of a suitable type …’ (TNA HO 186/1224 5647).
p. 247 ‘every month …’ Our Dumb Friends’ League Report for 1942.
p. 248 ‘for so readily …’ ibid.
p. 248 ‘cat in pie or stew can taste …’ ibid.
p. 248 ‘did its best …’ ibid.
p. 248 ‘swill bins …’ ibid.
p. 249 ‘Tiger, on arrival …’ ibid.
p. 249 ‘He has bought …’ Goebbels, Tagebücher Band. 4 (p. 1807).
p. 250 ‘I feel very bitter …’ 18–19 May 1942, Klemperer, Diaries of Viktor Klemperer 1933–1945 (pp. 496–99).
Chapter 23: The Secre
t War on Dogs
p. 252 ‘He has shown himself …’ The Times, 13 January 1943 (p. 5).
p. 252 ‘Cats queuing …’ Muswell Hill Record and Friern Barnet Journal, 15 January 1943 (p. 5).
p. 253 ‘Annexe …’ Soames, Mary, Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, Doubleday, London, 1998 (p. 471).
p. 253 fn ‘Smokey’ (TNA T199/274).
p. 253 ‘a huge dog entered …’ Sauerbruch, Das War Mein Leben (pp. 545–46).
p. 254 ‘Do certain people …’ (TNA HO 186/1023).
p. 254 ‘vigorous campaign …’ (TNA HO 186/2075).
p. 255 ‘Blood’, ‘Toil’, ‘Tunis’ and ‘Bizerta’ …’ Evening News, 3 May 1943 in ZSL Newscuttings.
p. 255 ‘might be diverted …’ (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 255 ‘With certain limited …’ ibid.
p. 255 Large amounts of …’ ibid.
p. 256 ‘for free painless …’ Lord President’s Committee, ‘The Control of Dogs’, 19 February 1943 para. 11(a) (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 256 ‘under review …’ (TNA MAF 128/38).
p. 256 ‘ten saucers of milk …’ Daily Mirror, 25 July 1944 (p. 26).
p. 257 ‘A woman at Reading …’ transcript of report in The Star, 22 March 1943 (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 257 ‘The ruling means what …’ (TNA MAF 84/57).
p. 257 ‘to starve out …’ (TNA MAF 84/61).
p. 257 ‘partly because owners …’ Graves, Great Days (p. 52).
p. 257 ‘feeding their dogs on figs …’ ibid.
p. 258 ‘eight civilian trainers …’ Our Dogs, 17 December 1943 (p. 1223).
p. 258 ‘after four weeks …’ ibid.
p. 259 ‘Glyndr …’ (TNA WO 32/14999).
p. 259 ‘too difficult …’ (http://www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/michael.pdf).
PART FOUR: PETS TRIUMPHANT
Chapter 24: Camp-followers
p. 265 ‘Dogs are found in large numbers’ The Dogs Bulletin, spring 1943 (p. 2).
p. 266 ‘Dogs and cats in army camps’ (TNA MAF 35/495).
p. 266 ‘Stray and ownerless cats …’ Army Council Instructions, 26 June 1943 (TNA MAF 35/495).
p. 266 ‘10,000 killer dogs …’ Daily Sketch, 24 April 1943 (cutting in TNA MAF 35/495).
p. 267 ‘fulfilled their role …’ T. J. Edwards, Mascots and Pets of the Services (2nd edn.) (pp. 156–7).
Bonzo's War Page 32