Category: Cats

“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

Compared with the normal span of a human life, old age and death come pathetically soon to cats. Ten years is the average length of the cat’s life, and it is the tragedy of becoming attached to a pet that you must part with it in such a short time. However, as some cats die… Continue reading When Cats Grow Old

Cats are such unobtrusive creatures that never, except perhaps in ancient Egypt, have they had the honor that is due them. Yet consider what they do for us. They kill the rats and mice that would destroy our food, our clothes, our libraries, and our homes; and what does it matter if, as their critics… Continue reading The Adaptability of the Cat

Modern people could hardly credit the prominence of the Cat Symbol in the religion of the ancient Egyptians were it not for the evidence that remains. But the statues of the goddess Bast, showing her with a cat head or with cats at her feet, statues brought from Thebes and Bubastis and now in Cairo,… Continue reading The Sacred Cats Of Egypt

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

In the beginning there were Persian cats, brought to Europe and America from Smyrna and other ports on the Oriental coast, and Angora cats, from the mountainous Turkish province of Angora. The Persians had silky, uniformly long and abundant coats, and broad heads; the Angoras had narrow heads, and their hair was longest on the… Continue reading About Persians and Angoras