Category: Cats

I do not know whether cats are really interested in the business of writing, or only pretend to be, but the effect is the same. And they are so tactful about it, so restful and soothing. My dog bears me company when I write, but he insists on napping under my feet, where I step… Continue reading Literary Cats

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

OF ALL THE DISEASES THAT afflict our cats, these three are the least curable, the most to be dreaded: distemper, tuberculosis, and infectious enteritis. Feline distemper is different in some ways from canine distemper, and though it is very contagious among cats, it is said that dogs do not catch it from them. Puppies have… Continue reading Distemper, Tuberculosis, and Infectious Enteritis

It is a curious fact that in the Bible, chronicle of a people who were not only contemporary with the cat-worshiping Egyptians but were closely associated with them, cats are not once mentioned. There have been many surmises as to the reason for this. One guess is that the Jews so hated Egypt, whose rulers… Continue reading Christ And The Cat

DIGESTIVE AILMENTS MAKE A long story, for they extend all the way from the teeth to the anus, from pyorrhea to rectal abscesses, from stomatitis, or sore mouth, to colitis. They make up the greater part of the cat cases at animal clinics, and for this we cat-owners ought to take shame to ourselves, because… Continue reading Troubles of the Digestive Tract

“He is only an alley cat, but we love him.” One often hears people say this, or something like it, but it is a mistaken sense of values that leads anyone to speak apologetically of the household pet because it has short hair and no pedigree. For the domestic short-haired cat is a member of… Continue reading The Domestic Short Haired Cat

WORMS ARE NOT GOOD THINGS for cats to have inside them, but I do believe they are less harmful, by and large, than are some of the remedies used to expel them. The mistaken notion that all kittens have worms and must be wormed as a matter of routine has brought a great deal of… Continue reading Worms and Hair Balls