. Biggle pet book ; a collection of information for old and young whose natural instincts teach them to be kind to all living creatures. Pets. PklZK-WINNING WHITE PERSIAN. Value, comes the pure white with pink eyes. No cat is more beautiful when its coat is kept in good order, and none more bedraggled and untidy when dirty and neglected. It is diffi- cult for an amateur to distinguish between a Persian and an Angora. The hair of the Persian is longer, straighter and coarser ; the cat is longer in body, with a longer and fuller-haired tail. On this ac- count it looks even larger than th
. Biggle pet book ; a collection of information for old and young whose natural instincts teach them to be kind to all living creatures. Pets. PklZK-WINNING WHITE PERSIAN. Value, comes the pure white with pink eyes. No cat is more beautiful when its coat is kept in good order, and none more bedraggled and untidy when dirty and neglected. It is diffi- cult for an amateur to distinguish between a Persian and an Angora. The hair of the Persian is longer, straighter and coarser ; the cat is longer in body, with a longer and fuller-haired tail. On this ac- count it looks even larger than the Angora. The colors are like the Angora, and the temper is said to be less dependable, nor are they so intelligent. The Russian cat's charac- teristics are its unusually large body and relatively short legs. Its fur is denser and longer, particularly around the neck, while the tail is covered from base to tip with hair of equal length. In color they come in as many varieties as the other breeds I have named. Very many of the long-haired cats are crosses of the Angora with the Russian or Persian cat, and it takes an expert to distinguish those really pure bred. In this country there is a purely American breed called the Coon cat, with long hair, now quite common in our New England States, particularly in the State of Maine. Not long ago a consignment of these cats was sent to my neighbor- ing city, and while not sold as Angoras, Persians or. COON Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson
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