11/11/2024
All of us at Corvallis Cat care would like to wish all those that served, currently serve and those that fought for our freedoms a Happy Veterans Day!
Cats have also played vital roles in military history providing rodent control ( keeping food sources safe), companionship, furry spies, and detectors of mustard gas and bombs. At least one cat in history won an award for bravery. His name was Simon, a ship's cat who served on the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS Amethyst. In 1949, during the Yangtze Incident, Simon received the PDSA's Dickin Medal after surviving injuries from a cannon shell, raising morale, and killing off a rat infestation during his service.