BREEDING AND EXHIBITING 69 



If you are allowed to provide your pussies with cushions 

 at a Show, let the neck ribbon correspond in colour, as this 

 will have a better effect. I recommend flannelette in pre- 

 ference to more costly materials. It is warmer and not so 

 slippery as silk or sateen. Some exhibitors aie able to 

 afford velvet ! 



Exhibitors will find little slip rings convenient to put on 

 metal tallies provided for the cats' necks at shows. 



In sending your pussies to the show, if you pack them in 

 hampers, whether lined or unlined, wrap the hamper in a 

 large sheet of brown paper, leaving only a square space un- 

 covered at the top round the handle. Fasten securely. If 

 you padlock the box, don't forget to send the key to the 

 secretary ! 



It is as well that exhibitors should understand that the 

 labels and tallies sent by the show secretary are in them- 

 selves an acknowledgment of the money received for entries. 

 Some impatient and unreasonable exhibitors write to the 

 show secretary requesting their labels, &c., before the 

 advertised time of closing entries. How would it be possible 

 to place the pen number on the labels when all the entries 

 had not been received ? 



Margarine baskets are cheap and handy for cats to travel 

 in; but when they are sent to shows exhibitors should 

 attach some straps, as in the hurry of packing up the 

 pussies it is not easy to have recourse to a packing-needle 

 and string. 



It is the custom for exhibitors to delay forwarding their 

 entries till just before the lists are closed. This unfortunate 

 habit entails much extra worry for the show secretary, and 

 causes a desperate rush at the last. 



I would like to impress upon exhibitors the importance of 

 writing very distinctly when rilling in their entries for shows. 

 This hint especially applies to the names of the cats, some 



