EXHIBITING. 



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the bine or the brown tabby class will have 

 no difficulty in locating it, even without a 

 catalogue. 



It is very important that all exhibits should 

 be examined by a qualified veterinary surgeon 

 before being penned, and if a cat is seriously 

 ill the owner should be at once communicated 

 with and the specimen returned. If it is a 

 doubtful case, perhaps a running eye or high 

 temperature, then the cat should be placed 

 apart in a properly arranged, and if possible 

 warmed, hospital room to be again examined. 

 Remember it is always better to disappoint 

 one exhibitor by refusing his 

 cat, than to disgust every- 

 body by bringing their 



china saucers instead of the usual tins, and 

 these are decidedly better in every way. A 

 one-day show is no doubt best for the cats, 

 but for the exhibitors and the executive a 

 two-days show is really preferable. If the 

 exhibits are allowed to be penned up till 

 eleven o'clock on the morning of the show, 

 the judging ought to be got through and the 



A LITTER OF BLUES. 

 (Photo: E. Landor, Eating.) 



carefully trained and dearly loved pets into 

 contact with disease. It is necessary to 

 appoint an official to check off each exhibit 

 as it is passed, and in the event of pro- 

 nounced illness or some other objectionable 

 feature to make a note of this for future 

 reference. 



As regards the feeding of exhibits, I am in 

 favour of raw beef or cooked meat cut into 

 small pieces or else put through a mincing 

 machine, and water to drink. For many 

 reasons it is not desirable to provide milk ; it 

 is apt to turn sour, and it certainly more easily 

 collects germs of disease, and so may prove a 

 fruitful source of evil. 



The Cat Club started the idea of having 



tickets placed on the pens in two hours with 

 a competent staff, and the show opened at 

 one or 1.30. 



A smart secretary will arrange with his 

 printer to have a list of awards printed 

 with the utmost speed directly after the class 

 judging is finished. This can either be given 

 in the catalogues themselves or a separate 

 sheet inserted in the catalogues. A large 

 board ought to be hung in a conspicuous and 

 convenient position, and the list of class 

 winners and the winners of special prizes 

 entered on it. This is better than having the 

 slips pinned upon a board. They are .of ten very 

 indistinctly written, and are apt to get torn 

 down. Let the closing hour on the first night 



