Mammals The Cat 
nights. In case the cat is valuable, the risk of losing 
it is great if it is allowed to run out at night. More- 
over, it does greatest damage to birds at night, or 
during early morning. 
If puss is confined in the house, a shallow tin or 
box of dry earth or ashes should be kept in some 
convenient place, and she should be taught to use it. 
This should be emptied every day to keep it perfectly 
sanitary. 
If a number of cats are kept there should be a 
special room or building with an outside run for their 
use. This place would need to be heated in cold 
weather, and must be free from damp, frost and 
draughts. Cats do not do well in pens or cages. 
FOOD 
Cats should be fed well at regular periods. Bread 
and milk is an acceptable food to most. Potatoes 
mixed with meat scraps and gravy may be given now 
and then; occasionally fish heads, or other fish scraps, 
boiled with or without rice, are greatly relished. 
Many cats like porridge in the winter months, and 
all enjoy getting raw meat off of bones; however, 
smaller bones of chicken or game should not be given 
lest they cause internal injury. Cooked meat, in 
reasonable quantities, should be given each day. 
Cats are fond of grass, mint and catnip; catnip 
especially should be harvested in the summer, so that 
it may be givenin the winter. Some advise the feed- 
ing of a little raw meat three times a week, but this 
sometimes produces indigestion, or what is often 
called ‘‘fits.’’ Above all, a dish of clean water should 
be kept where puss can help herself, for she likes to 
drink many times a day. Feeding her milk is not 
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