High-Bred Cats in America 



and is now one of the dearest pets imaginable. His 

 fur is extremely long and soft, without a colored 

 hair. His tail is broad and carried proudly aloft, 

 curling over toward his back when walking. His 

 face is full of intelligence : his ears well-tipped and 

 feathered, and his ruff a thing of beauty and a joy 

 forever. 



King Max, a long-haired, black male, weighing 

 thirteen pounds at the age of one year, and valued 

 at one thousand dollars, took first prizes in Boston 

 in January, 1897, '9^, and '99. He is owned by 

 Mrs. E. R. Taylor, of Medford, Mass., and attracts 

 constant attention during shows. His fur is without 

 a single white hair and is a finger deep ; his ruff en- 

 circles his head like a great aureole. He is not only 

 one of the most beautiful cats I have ever seen, but 

 one of the best-natured : as his reputation for beauty 

 spreads among visitors at the show, everybody wants 

 to see him, and he has no chance at all for naps. 

 Generally he is brought forward and taken from his 

 cage a hundred times a day; but not once does he 

 show the least sign of ill-temper, and even on the 

 last day of the show he keeps up a continual low 

 purr of content and happiness. Perhaps he knows 

 how handsome he is. 



Grover B., the Mascotte, is a Philadelphia cat 

 who took the twenty-five dollar gold medal in 1895, 

 at the New York show, as the heaviest white cat 

 exhibited. He belongs to Mr. and Mrs. W. P. 



