Gossip Friday: Puss in Splints

From January 1941:

Latest freak at the Gable-Lombard zoo (which is what Hollywood is calling that amazing San Fernando Valley ranch of the stars) is a cat with one hind leg in splints!

Seems that Clark and Carole have no less than twenty cats about the place—and the population is going up steadily. But even so, the famous couple can’t find the heart to dispose of any of them, no matter how steady the rate of production. And when one of them meets disaster—well, the other day one of the cats got in a trap and came out with a broken leg. Instead of having her killed, Carole and Clark sent her to the veterinarian’s, and had the broken leg set and put in splints—and now the puss hops around on three legs until the fourth one is healed again.