THE LONG-HAIRED CAT 133 



have an abundant coat all over the body, particularly at 

 the sides and thighs. 



The feet and legs should be well clothed with hair, 

 even to the feet and between the toes, and be fairly 

 strong in bone. 



The tail, which is an important feature in all long- 

 haired cats, should not be long in itself, but covered with 

 very long hair, rather thicker in apparent size than in 

 Angoras, carried gracefully with a curve, but never curled 

 over the back at any time. 



The size of males is almost always greater than 

 females, for the former fourteen pounds is a large weight, 

 and may be generally taken as a limit, and females of 

 twelve pounds are quite up to the average of the best 

 specimens usually seen. 



Condition, which includes general appearance and 

 shape, is very important, and is a good deal the result of 

 the attention paid to an animal by the amount of 

 grooming, etc., it has received. To render it in as perfect 

 form as possible, the whole of the head, chest, back, sides, 

 legs, feet and tail being gone over with a brush with long 

 bristles, and all knots or foreign matter, such as straw, 

 hay, etc., removed from the hair the last thing before 

 being sent off. 



Colour should be as pure white as obtainable, some 

 prefer a little squeeze of the blue bag in the water before 

 washing, to give a blue white tinge like we see in milk, 

 others like a more creamy white, but, at anyrate, it should 

 have no tints of any kind in it, but, literally, be as pure 

 as newly-fallen snow. 



