Do you believe that animals can sense things we can't?
Jenny was the cat of the RMS Titanic and was adopted from her sister ship the RMS Olympic. Jenny was a rat catcher and gave birth to a litter of kittens shortly before the Titanic's maiden voyage in April 1912. She lived mainly in the galley where the kitchen crew fed her left over food.
Jenny took all of her babies, one by one off the ship. One of the crew watched her doing this and he wondered why she opted to leave her job and leave the ship with her babies. That same crew member decided Jenny knew something was wrong and thought it best not to be on the ship either and stay with Jenny and her kittens. He resigned, packed a bag and left with the cat and kittens. The rest is history. Did Jenny know what future was held for the ship. I’ll bet the crew member who decided to follow Jenny’s lead was very grateful also. There is also a book on Jenny's story.
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I remember being told this story in a shop in Southampton when I was about 14, an old second hand shop that stocked a lot of Titanic memorabilia. I was always fascinated by that ship after learning about it at school. I think animals have a few different senses to what we humans have and one could be sensing danger, although that cat must have had super powers to predict the ship's fate at that stage 😆
