14 THE CAT 



Patent cat-foods are sold, the principal one 

 being manufactured by Spratt's Patent, and this 

 is an excellent food, and cats thrive on it. 



The author has recommended horseflesh as the 

 best food, but a word of caution is necessary to 

 qualify this recommendation. There are at least 

 two diseases affecting the horse, which might be 

 transmitted to the cat through consuming the 

 semi-cooked flesh of a diseased animal. 



Legislation against these diseases is prohibitive, 

 namely, anthrax and glanders. Carcases affected 

 in this manner are not allowed to be cut up, much 

 less distributed as food to other members of the 

 lower creation : the obscurity, however, of these 

 maladies does sometimes lead to their accidental 

 admission into the cat's-meat market, yet this is 

 not sufficient to disturb the recommendation of 

 horseflesh as food for cats. 



Special Feeding of Sick Cats. 



When cats have to be fed, artificially, as in many 

 cases of disease, a great deal of trouble and patience 

 has to be exercised, and considerable manipulative 

 dexterity is called for. 



First of all, the following artificial foods and 

 stimulants are the principal ones : warmed milk ; 

 iced milk ; milk and soda water ; beef juice ; 

 Brand's Essence ; Lactol ; Oxo ; Bovril ; raw egg ; 

 egg and brandy ; corn-flour ; arrow-root ; malt and 



