GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



FEEDING. 



Adult cats require less food in proportion than kittens, 

 for two reasons. One is this : a kitten is growing, and there- 

 fore extra bone, flesh, skin, hair, and all else has to be 

 provided for ; while in the adults, these are more or less 

 acquired, and also they procure for themselves, in various 

 ways in country or suburban localities, much live and other 

 food, and no animal is the better for over or excessive 

 feeding, especially if confined, or its chances of exercise 

 contracted. 



I have tried many ways or methods of feeding. Biscuits 

 of sorts, liver, lights, horseflesh, bread and milk, rice, fish, 

 and cat mixtures, but have always attained the best results 

 by giving new milk as drink, and raw shin of beef for food, 

 with grass, boiled asparagus stems, cabbage - lettuce, or 

 some other vegetable, either cooked or fresh. Good horse- 

 flesh is much liked by the cat, and it thrives well on it. I 

 do not believe in either liver or lights as a flesh or bone 

 maker. Besides the beef, there are the " tit-bits " that the 

 household cat not only usually receives, but looks for or 

 expects. 



My dear friend, Mr. John Timbs, in '' Things not Gene- 

 rally Known," avers that cats are not so fond of fish as flesh, 

 and that the statement that they are is a fallacy. He says, 

 put both before them and they will take the flesh first, and 

 this I have found to be correct. I should only give fresh 

 fish, as a rule, to a cat when unwell, more as an alterative 

 than food. 



