SOME NOTABLE CATTERIES. 



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''Princess Lestock " were exhibited re- 

 spectively at the Westminster and Crystal 

 Palace shows, and both were speedily claimed 

 at the high catalogue price. " Floriana," a 

 huge, handsome long-haired brown tabby, who 

 formerly belonged to Mrs. Herring, has recently 

 found a home in America. Siamese and 

 Russian cats have not been strangers to this 

 cattery, where sometimes the number of 

 inmates has been over forty ! Within the 

 last few years Mrs. Herring has had to reduce 

 her stock, owing to the complaints of neigh- 



us how she manages in her town residence 

 at Louth. Here are her notes. 



BREEDING BLUE PERSIANS IN LIMITED SPACE. 



"The successful breeding of blue Persian cats 

 in a space so limited that a grass run or green 

 trees are things to be desired rather than at- 

 tained, requires nice judgment and great care. 

 The space at my command for cat keeping and 

 breeding purposes is only a back yard, some 

 14 yards long by 6 yards wide. This very 

 limited space is further curtailed, on one side, 



MRS. CLARKE S CATTERY. 

 (Photo: Mrs. S. F. Clarke.) 



hours, who showed no sympathy with the 

 feline race, and some excellent, well-arranged 

 cat-houses had to be removed, as they some- 

 what encroached on a neighbouring garden 

 wall. It must have been a trying time, and 

 the weeding-out process a most difficult one, 

 for such a really warm-hearted and devoted a 

 fancier as Mrs. Herring, whose pussies are all 

 pets, and who personally supervises her cat- 

 tery at Lestock House. 



It is not given to all, particularly in large 

 towns, to have at their disposal such an 

 amount of waste space as their more fortunate 

 brethren of the country. I have therefore 

 asked Mrs. S. F. Clarke, whose cat photographs 

 have been a delight to all our readers, to tell 



by my husband's laboratory ; while the cat- 

 tery and its covered run cut off another strip 

 at the end, of 7 yards by 2 yards, reducing the 

 ground available for open air exercise and run 

 to a patch about 18 feet by 12 feet, and a 

 nagged portion some 21 feet by 6 feet. 



' The space between the front of the labora- 

 tory and the nagged path being occupied by a 

 small independent house and covered run, is 

 very useful either for isolation or a.s a separate 

 home for growing kittens. The boundary 

 wall is supported by 4-foot wire netting sup- 

 ported by 3-foot iron stanchions, thus allowing 

 a free edge at the top of about 12 inches to be 

 bent inwards and left loose. This I find a suf- 

 ficient safeguard against my own cats getting 



