BTW, cats and dogs: I never realised this before, but that means Heinrich must have kept some at Rheinsberg, or people from his household did.
Evidently! I think I had raised an eyebrow at that when reading Ziebura, but then totally forgotten (has it really been almost a year? OMG), so thank you for the reminder! Since we don't hear about them from Lehndorff, I'm guessing they weren't nearly as important to Heinrich as the greyhounds were to Fritz.
Which is why I qualified it with "...or people from his household". Perhaps owning dogs himself would have been too much of a resemblance for Heinrich, but he was okay with either of the Roche-Raymons or someone else from his circle and household owning them. Now that I think of it: Fontane mentions that the Countess de la Roche-Raymon as an excentric old lady was a major major cat lady (with some other animals in her apartment, too, when he visited), who in fact died by bite of cat. Presumably she already liked cats as a young woman, and she and her husband were living with Heinrich part of the year, so the cats at least probably were hers.
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Evidently! I think I had raised an eyebrow at that when reading Ziebura, but then totally forgotten (has it really been almost a year? OMG), so thank you for the reminder! Since we don't hear about them from Lehndorff, I'm guessing they weren't nearly as important to Heinrich as the greyhounds were to Fritz.
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