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and with the co-operation of her husband (Dr. as regards getting to several shows a year, for 

 White), who is very clever with animals, the Detroit is accessible to Cleveland, Rochester, 

 assistance she will receive will very largely Cincinnati, and Chicago, all of which are 



help to bring her to the front. 



good shows ; so this gives the Detroit fanciers 



Mrs. White is the lady who is organising the chance to come out at several shows 

 a home for deserted dogs and cats, with besides their own in the course of the winter. 



At Detroit reside several of our most enter- 

 prising and successful breeders and exhibitors ; 

 for the Detroit fancier is not content simply to 



a hospital attached, and on a scale and 

 with a foresight that is certainly remark- 

 able. Considering that Dr. White is the 

 head of the Veterinary College in Chicago, stay at home and only take part in the one 

 the benefit that may accrue to the dogs and local show of the year, but is to be found 

 cats in the future from the opportunity of at a good many, even so far away as New 

 humane study that this will give will be York. In the list of these we place Mrs. F. J. 

 incalculable. This, when put alongside of the Sarmiento and Mrs. Dwight Cutler, who own 



horrible revelations that we are treated to 

 anent vivisection, may, I hope, have the 

 effect of swinging the balance the other way, 



the well-known cats " Arlington Hercules," 

 *' Bar Abdul," " Marriame," " Dingley Belle," 

 " Champion Floriana," " Brownie Pink," etc. 



and help to show the rash experimenters that The history of these and their wins is written 



there are people in this world who recognise on the sands of time and will not be lost for 



the individuality of the animal creation, and many years, and they represent the enterprise 



that we who use them for our own ends and of buying and importing the best English 



have crowded them out of their place in strains and taking care of them. 

 Nature to a certain extent should at the same Mrs. Owen, at the Owena Cattery, has been 



time look at the other side of the picture, and an important factor at many shows for the 



should consider the debt we owe to them last two years. Mrs. W. M. Chapman is well 



during their short lives that humanity, known to show-goers, and has won a good 



practised towards 

 the dumb animals, 

 is nothing more than 

 their just due. 



A great many of 

 the same cats won 

 at Chicago at this 

 last show, " Lupin " 

 being again best cat 

 in show, and among 

 the younger brigade 

 the most remarkable 

 was a lovely cream 



MISS R. WARD S " ROBIN. 

 (Photo : Gardner & Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.) 



many honours, and 

 rather in a way not 

 too common here 

 that is, by breeding 

 her own cats. This 

 has been done with 

 skill and patience ; 

 for Mrs. Chapman 

 has selected the 

 parents with fore- 

 thought, and has not 

 been one of those 

 who has paid large 



kitten owned by Mrs. Locke, which is by sums for breeding stock. The keynote, more 



Kew Laddie." " Toodles," a white son of 

 Light of Asia," was the best white. 



DISTRICT NO. 3. 



or less, of this strain has been a fine brown 

 tabby obtained from Canada some years ago 

 viz. "Prince Rupert," who goes back in his 

 pedigree to cats owned by Mr. A. A. Clarke, 



District No. 3, which we shall assign to the and also to some imported by Mrs. Cumber- 

 Detroit contingent, is certainly one of our land, of Port Hope, Ontario, 

 most important. The Detroit fanciers are Mrs. W. J. Stanton deserves mention in 

 situated more in a central position that is, the Detroit list as a breeder of short-haired 



