Category: Cats

Some people do not approve of the growing practice of neutering cats. They say it is against nature. But nature has one mighty purpose, to create, to guard against extinction, and the consequences of an oversupply mean nothing at all to her. “So careless of the single life,” she neither knows nor cares whether there… Continue reading On Neutering 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

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