ii4 CATS AND ALL ABOUT THEM 



according to the breeds ? In Blue cats they are just about 

 the colour of the coat, the same with Black Persians. 

 Orange cats have pink noses, and the Silvers mostly a sort 

 of brick-dust colour; this also is the case with Brown 

 Tabbies. 



Here are particulars of two very inexpensive articles useful 

 to fanciers. If you do not have your tins made for holding 

 the earth, then purchase large earthenware flower-pot saucers. 

 These are much preferable to wooden boxes. Baskets come 

 expensive if you need many for cats travelling, so I advise 

 you to lay in a stock of margarine baskets, which your 

 butterman and grocer will let you have for a few pence. 



Let me recommend my readers to pay a visit to the 

 Camden Town Institution for Lost and Starving Cats. It 

 is splendidly managed, and all information as to the most 

 humane way of destroying injured or aged cats is readily 

 given. One has to see, in order to believe, how absolutely 

 painless is the sleep of death in the lethal box for poor 

 pussy. 



When your pets are in full coat, then is the time to have 

 their photographs taken. It is often very convenient and 

 useful to have a good picture of your stud cat or queen to 

 send to would-be purchasers of them, or of their kittens. A 

 reproduction in Our Cats has often proved a splendid 

 advertisement for fanciers. 



Never be persuaded into purchasing a cat or kitten that is 

 suffering from snuffles, or nasal catarrh. This troublesome 

 complaint, which is often the remnants of distemper, is 

 seldom really curable. It is most distressing, not to say 

 disgusting, to have a cat that is sneezing all over the place. 



If you are desirous of discovering the pedigree of a cat, 

 you should send a shilling to the secretary of the club and 

 ask for it to be looked up and forwarded to you. 



It is a very good thing to accustom your cats to answer to 

 their names, and if you give them some high-sounding title 



