Concerning Cats 



hard-hearted : hence the efforts that are being made 

 in different cities to establish refuges. A request has 

 lately been received from Montreal asking for our 

 reports, as it is proposed to found a home for animals 

 in that city, and information is being collected in 

 relation to such institutions." 



Lady Marcus Beresford has succeeded in estab- 

 lishing and endowing a home for cats in Englefield 

 Green, Windsor Park. She has made a specialty of 

 Angoras, and her collection is famous. Queen Victo- 

 ria and her daughters take a deep interest, not alone 

 in finely bred cats, but in poor and homeless waifs as 

 well. Her Royal Highness, in fact, took pains to 

 write the London S. P. C. A. some years ago, saying 

 she would be very glad to have them do something 

 for the safety and protection of cats, " which are so 

 generally misunderstood and grossly ill-treated." She 

 herself sets a good example in this respect, and 

 when her courts remove from one royal residence to 

 another, her cats are taken with her. 



There is a movement in Paris, too, to provide for 

 sick and homeless cats as well as dogs. Two Eng- 

 lish ladies have founded a hospital near Asniferes, 

 where ailing pets can be tended in illness, or boarded 

 for about ten cents a day ; and very well cared for 

 their pensioners are. There is also a charity ward 

 where pauper patients are received and tended care- 

 fully, and afterward sold or given away to reliable 

 people. Oddly, this sort of charity was begun by 



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