Louis Camuti

August 30, 1893 (age 87)

Parma, Province of Parma, Italy

He was the first veterinarian in the United States to devote his entire practice to cats. Camuti and Lloyd Alexander were the authors of Park Avenue Vet (Deutsch, 1962). He was the author of All My Patients Are Under The Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor (Simon & Schuster, 1980), with Marilyn and Haskel Frankel. When Camuti was about 11 years old, he had typhoid fever, and while sick in bed, his mother left the house with food cooking on the stove. When the pot boiled over, gas began to fill the home. Their cat jumped onto his chest and weaved her head back and forth. He was too weak to get out of bed, and felt the cats efforts may have saved his life. Camuti began specializing in cats around 1932-1933. At the time, veterinarians did not spend much time providing services to cats.

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He was the first veterinarian in the United States to devote his entire practice to cats. Camuti and Lloyd Alexander were the authors of Park Avenue Vet (Deutsch, 1962). He was the author of All My Patients Are Under The Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor (Simon & Schuster, 1980), with Marilyn and Haskel Frankel.

When Camuti was about 11 years old, he had typhoid fever, and while sick in bed, his mother left the house with food cooking on the stove.

When the pot boiled over, gas began to fill the home. Their cat jumped onto his chest and weaved her head back and forth.

He was too weak to get out of bed, and felt the cats efforts may have saved his life. Camuti began specializing in cats around 1932-1933.

At the time, veterinarians did not spend much time providing services to cats.

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