HINTS ON CARE AND MANAGEMENT 47 



Animals will appreciate this attention, for freezing water is 

 not pleasant to the tongue. 



Just as with human beings so with cats ; in cases of con- 

 tinuous sickness soda and milk is sometimes the only food 

 that can be kept down. 



Do not let your pussies drink icy cold milk or water, it is 

 most trying to their digestion and not comforting to their in- 

 teriors. I find my cats like their milk in winter steaming 

 hot and it is wonderful how hot they can lap it. 



It is very important that cats should be given a good 

 proportion of vegetable diet. This is more especially neces- 

 sary if grass is not easily obtainable. Some fanciers are in 

 favour of lentils, and no doubt they are very nourishing, but 

 as a rule pussy does not take kindly to this food, and an 

 early training is necessary. Lentils should soak for some 

 hours and then be slowly boiled. They are best mixed with 

 scraps of meat and gravy. 



If your cats cannot have access to grass, then sow seeds in 

 pots and leave in the cattery. Cats always prefer the 

 coarser kind of grass. 



I find that of all sorts of grass and green food, cats are 

 fondest of ribbon grass. I have some specially sown in the 

 garden, and every morning I twist it in and out of the wire 

 of my cattery, and the pussies bite away at it with great 

 delight. 



Don't forget when you wish to administer any kind of oil 

 to cats or kits to have the spoon quite hot. It is best to 

 stand it in the boiling water, then pour in the oil, which 

 you will find will slip down the cat's throat very easily, and 

 not remain sticking to the spoon or the patient's mouth. 



Some cats will thoroughly enjoy to nibble at a piece of 

 bread and butter. One of my cats always makes her ap- 

 pearance at afternoon tea, and expects to be offered tea-cake, 

 muffin, or whatever is going. 



