Concerning Cats 



He is beautifully marked, and has a disposition as 

 "childlike and bland" as the most exacting owner 

 could wish. Miss Puff is also owned by Mr. Rawson, 

 and presents him with beautiful white Angora kittens 

 every year. The group of ten white kittens, raised 

 by him in 1896, gives some idea of the beauty of 

 these kittens : although the picture was taken with 

 a high wind blowing in their faces, causing one white 

 beauty to conceal all marks of identification except 

 an ear, and another to hide completely behind his 

 playmates. 



Mustapha was entered by Dr. Huidekoper in the 

 first New York show, but not for competition. He 

 was a magnificent brindled Persian gelded cat, six 

 years old, who enjoyed the plaudits of the multitude 

 just as well as though he had taken first prize. He 

 was very fond of his master, but very shy with 

 strangers when at home. He slept on the library 

 desk, or a cushion next his master's bed whenever 

 he could be alone with the doctor, but at other times 

 preferred his own company or that of the cook. 



Another cat that attracted a great deal of attention 

 was Master Pettet's Tommy, a white Persian, im- 

 ported in 1889 and valued at five hundred dollars, 

 although no money consideration could induce his 

 owners to part with him. He was brought from the 

 interior of Persia, where he was captured in a wild 

 state. He was kept caged for over a year, and would 

 not be tamed; but at last he became domesticated, 



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