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“I had to choose between giving him a short life and a merry one or a long life and a dull,” a woman said of her cat whom she had allowed to wander at will, and whose career was unfortunately cut short by poison. “And I don’t believe in shutting animals up.” If it were… Continue reading Dangers That Await Our Cats

Some people do not approve of the growing practice of neutering cats. They say it is against nature. But nature has one mighty purpose, to create, to guard against extinction, and the consequences of an oversupply mean nothing at all to her. “So careless of the single life,” she neither knows nor cares whether there… Continue reading On Neutering Cats

It is said that nursing is half the battle in treating a sick human being. It is more than that in dealing with a sick cat. Shut off from us by the barrier of language, not knowing the why of the hurt and the handling and the medicines and all the tiresome business of healing,… Continue reading The Importance of Nursing

Some of the visitors to a huge animal hospital in New York City are surprised when they see, under the heading “diagnosis” on the cards that are tacked on the cages of the ward patients, such terms as enteritis, pleurisy, laryngitis, keratitis, otitis, cystitis, and spinal meningitis. Especially if the patient is a cat. That… Continue reading The Responsibility of the Owner

Speaking about operations on cats,” said a man who had lost an old cat greatly beloved by his wife and himself, “there is only one thing to be said. They can’t stand them.” Happy had a cancer, and his owners refused to subject him to the knife. They kept him with them so long as… Continue reading About Operations

Cats have very acute hearing. At a convention of the American Otological Society in Atlantic City, a McGill University man exhibited a group of cats that had been trained to associate certain sounds with food, and showed that the cats responded to sounds that the listening scientists could not hear at all. It was proved,… Continue reading Diseases of the Ears

The cat’s eyes are its most remarkable feature; their luminous beauty and power of seeing in the darkness had much to do with the awe in which this animal was held by the early Egyptians and its prominence in witch lore and strange religions. The Egyptians believed that the cat’s phosphorescent eyes mirrored the sun’s… Continue reading Diseases of the Eyes

There is no excuse for the owner when fleas appear on an indoor cat, unless they are brought in by some visiting cat or dog. For the flea is a creature of filth, and its eggs are usually deposited in dust and grime, in neglected chinks and corners. Cats that are below par, cats that… Continue reading Concerning Fleas and Other Pests

There is a good deal of confusion in the lay mind about the skin diseases to which cats are subject, and this is not strange, for there are several of them, some parasitic, some non-parasitic, some contagious, some non-contagious, and often the eruptions look pretty much the same to the inexperienced eye. It is unfortunate,… Continue reading Skin Disorders

Though science has established that cats have brains to be diseased, and we are learning that the word “fits” does not cover the range of their brain and nerve disorders, the fact that cats have brains to think with and do think with them is not very widely recognized. It is so easy to disparage… Continue reading Cat Care And Health – The Soul of the Cat