. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. seen in our houses and gardens Transversal black stripes, sometimes black with brown edges, encircle the legs, tail, and neck, and go down the sides of the animal. Often these lines go from the eyes to the forehead, forming sin- gular figures, in which (by an effort of imag- ination) the owner sometimes deciphers a monogram. Most of these cats, of less pure descent, have white patches on their heads, which exclude them from exhibitions. Are gray
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. seen in our houses and gardens Transversal black stripes, sometimes black with brown edges, encircle the legs, tail, and neck, and go down the sides of the animal. Often these lines go from the eyes to the forehead, forming sin- gular figures, in which (by an effort of imag- ination) the owner sometimes deciphers a monogram. Most of these cats, of less pure descent, have white patches on their heads, which exclude them from exhibitions. Are gray cats better mousers than all others .? They are said to be ; but if the fact be true, it cannot result from the color, because, as we very well know, " by night all cats are ; Other gray cats that are almost black have white paws and a white line between the eyes. The blacker the cat and the whiter the line the more the animal is valued. The contrary, namely a wholly white body with black head and tail, characterizes the Moorish cats, a race. which breeding would White Perslan o From painting A Celicbraticd T.\r',r,v. A Piuze Winner I'^i'om p:uiilin,t^ E. greati)' iniprox^e. The striped and very tall Cyprus cat is universally renowned. Its stripes are gray or black on a yellow ground, but they must be perfectly distinct. Many cats are sold under the name of " Cyprus cats," in whose veins there is not a drojj of C)'priot blood and whose ancestors ne\'er saw the island of Cyprus. Among the long-haired cats we meet the imposing Angora, white in color, with a mag- nificent plumed tail. There are cats of this race of sex'eral other colors, but breeders are en- deavoring to keep them pure white ; and as this color propagates itself with some constancy, they are succeeding. The Angora being espe- cially a parlor cat, \-ery sensitive to cold and dampness, and conse- quentl)' delicate in con- stitution, their owners slmuld a\-oid giving them daint
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