. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE CAT >i5 The cat called the " Carthusian friar" is blue, with very long hne hair. In Holland there is a breed ot very handsome short-haired blue cats which would find a great market it some intelligent person would undei take to breed them. It was our inten tion to reproduce a group of them here, but photography was jjowerless to give an idea of the beautiful coloi of the living animal. Blue-gray cats, whose color is far from bein
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE CAT >i5 The cat called the " Carthusian friar" is blue, with very long hne hair. In Holland there is a breed ot very handsome short-haired blue cats which would find a great market it some intelligent person would undei take to breed them. It was our inten tion to reproduce a group of them here, but photography was jjowerless to give an idea of the beautiful coloi of the living animal. Blue-gray cats, whose color is far from being as beautiful as that of the foregoing species, often have white patches on the breast, the paws, and sometimes the head. The soot-colored, or "tabby," cat, sometimes called the gray cat, is the one most frequently. 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. 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 Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Kath
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