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

A cat may look at a king, but not many cats have the opportunity. Siamese cats for more than two hundred years have dwelt in the royal palaces at Bangkok and had kings, queens, princes, and princesses to look at. Those who did not live at court lived in temples and had priests to serve… Continue reading The Royal Siamese

Choosing a kitten for a pet is a question that often settles itself when some cat family youngster comes to your door, unbidden, and meows to be let inside. But whether a young cat adopts you, or you procure one by purchase from a reliable dealer, there are rules you should follow to determine whether… Continue reading Choosing A Kitten

This book makes no attempt to deal with breeding as a science or as a business. Breeding is a big subject, and individual owners, keeping cats as pets or mousers, hardly need to go into its complexities. But pet cats and mousers do have kittens, and there are basic facts and simple rules which all… Continue reading The Care Of Mothers And Their Young

If kitty preens as it purrs, it will be a more pleasing and a healthier cat. So, encourage vanity in your pet. Brush it. Make a fuss over it. This attention raises your cat’s sense of importance and induces it to give you effectual co-operation in grooming. You will be proud of your clean, neat… Continue reading Care And Grooming Of Cats

The “Mystery of the ships and the magic of the sea” envelop the beginning of Manx cats, or rather the beginning of our knowl edge of them. This does not extend very far into the past. By shipwreck they came to the Isle of Man, leaving their tails behind them, if they ever had any.… Continue reading The Mystery of the Manx Cat