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the petter eats, or at least try todo so. I have seen them eat 
= candy, dates and figs. One, only a semi-pet, who usually rejected 
| sweets, was found one day picking out and eating the raisins from 
a piece of cold pudding. 
Some cats will positively eat nothing but meat. I had one such. 
He was a yellow and black brindle, and I understood that this 
_ was a hereditary trait. But he once made an unexpected raid on 
= some cream-cakes, and once condescended to eat Brighton biscuit. 
_ My present cat, “ Pug,” has much of the same tastes. He will 
_ now and then, out of politeness, take a bit of something else, but 
will not really eat anything but meat. He does not, however, like 
it raw, except when very hungry, a few bits of raw beef, other 
meats not at all. I have known of cats who would eat only raw 
meat, but never had such a one. 
Almost all cats will eat eggs—cooked or raw. “Pug” would, 
in his younger days, but he is apt to refuse them now. “ Nanny 
Longclaws ” (originally “ Ninon de l’Enclos”) was so fond of eggs 
that breaking the shells would bring her rushing into the house 
even from such a distance that one would have thought she could 
not hear the sound. ‘ 
They are, I think, to a cat, fond of fish—many extravagantly 
so, Oysters are in the same standing as cheese among them. 
Some will cry bitterly for them as soon as they perceive they are 
on hand ; others reject them positively. i 
“ Blanche,” one of the two cats now attached to the establish- 
‘Ment, will, I believe, eat everythiug except fruit and salt pork. She 
was born omnivorous, not having been especially petted in her. 
kittenhood, nor brought up on a miscellaneous diet. 
One Maltese cat, attracted probably by the musky odor, would 
not only drink the water in which India ink had been mixed by 
| ote the brushes, but lick the ae on which the ink ha 
_ been rubbed. They are partial to perfumes. l 
A great many of as as Dr. Dimmock observes, will catch 
_ and eat insects. “Blanche” has a great tag for neces lcs 
es e á J ” T judge, are not, reme 
a gies too,” Squash eae “ite one assumed after an 
- eat them, They will kill snakes, and sometimes partially eat 
i ” i i -neglected 
- Much that is interesting can be said about the long-neg 
_ and greatly-calumniated p: I think its psychology deserves 
_ attention. I have observed in them a capacity for friendship oe 
_ themselves.—Fyancis M. Slack, Librarian Mus. Comp. Zoology. 
