Category: Cats

Advocates of right feeding for cats are sometimes confronted by this difficulty, that some cats, like some people, appear to thrive on food that has hardly anyproper nutriment at all. Just as a debutante will put in a strenuous day of social engagements on a breakfast of orange juice and a luncheon of black coffee… Continue reading The Right Feeding Of Cats

A WOMAN BROUGHT A PERSIAN cat into an animal hospital. The cat’s hair was long, thick, and fine, the result of generations of breeding in which the fancier’s object had been to produce, among other points, just this perfection of coat. Yet the coat was tangled and full of cots, hard lumps of hair so… Continue reading On Grooming a Cat

Put the rubber mouse away; Pick the spools up from the floor. What was velvet-shod and gay Will not need them any more. THIS VERSE IN A POEM ABOUT a dead kitten, which looked out at me in some forgotten time from the corner of a newspaper, has always stayed in my mind. It says… Continue reading Things an Indoor Cat Needs

  A CAT WITH A COLD IN THE head is just as uncomfortable as you are when you have the snuffles; and you have the solace of a handkerchief, while even the most intelligent cat can never be taught to blow its nose. Colds are sometimes called nasal catarrh, or coryza, or rhinitis, but by… Continue reading Colds and What They Lead To

ALL RESPIRATORY DISEASES OF course cause disturbances of one sort or another in the breathing. In some of them respiration is quickened, in others it is labored and heavy. Abnormally fast breathing may of course result from other causes-from excitement, or fear, or exertion-but that is temporary. If you note that your cat in its… Continue reading More about Respiratory Disease

Cats do not like the water. Dogs do. Cats are supposed to love a snug, warm berth. Dogs are agog for adventure. Yet there is seldom a ship that has not its cat, and the annals of the sea are full of stories of them, while the only sea dogs so far as I know… Continue reading Cats Who Go Down To The Sea In Ships

I suppose that when chappie the Globe-trotter opened his eyes, behind the counter in a little stationery shop in New York, his mother had no idea that he was to become a great traveler. She was a humble creature who had never been a block away from home, and Chappie was the least of her… Continue reading Cats as Traveling Companions

Minnie, the cat who knew Caruso, owed her rise in life partly to luck and partly to character. Luck led her, a forlorn kitten, to the door of the Artists’ and Writers’ Club in West Fortieth Street on a cold November night in 192o just when John Bleeck, the manager, was taking a look at… Continue reading Feline Characters in New York City

Mickey, the English cat who, as related in the chapter on Cats as Traveling Companions, traveled widely with his beloved mas ter and mistress, Mr. and Mrs. Osborne Leonard, is said to have continued to travel after he died. It was the firm belief of Mrs. Leonard that he came back many times in the… Continue reading Witch Cats and Cat Ghosts

A kitten is a charming thing, but whether the kitten you take into your home turns into a charming cat depends largely on you. A kitten is a baby, and the better its care, its food, and its training, the more likely it is to turn into the healthy, happy, well-mannered animal you want your… Continue reading When You Buy A Kitten