Category: Cats

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

A SCHOOLTEACHER FRIEND who lived with her cat and dog in a little house she had built on the outskirts of a Westchester town telephoned me in great distress. “Bill has gone insane,” she said. Bill was her twelve-year-old cat, one of the most sensible and poised individuals I ever had the privilege of knowing.… Continue reading Disease of the Nerves and Brain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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