The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it; . arily strong and numerous, and further, it haselastic pads or cushions consisting of a mass of fibroustissue and fat on all its feet, seven in each forepaw andfive in each hind paw. The cat nearly always alights onthese pads, which, by reason of their elasticity, break theforce of its fall. The anatomical structure of the cats isq. indicative of great strength and activity; the jaws are very powerful, bearing teeth-shaped like wedges thin and sharp, requiring but littleforce to cut through the flesh on which they fe:d; thestructure of the joint
The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it; . arily strong and numerous, and further, it haselastic pads or cushions consisting of a mass of fibroustissue and fat on all its feet, seven in each forepaw andfive in each hind paw. The cat nearly always alights onthese pads, which, by reason of their elasticity, break theforce of its fall. The anatomical structure of the cats isq. indicative of great strength and activity; the jaws are very powerful, bearing teeth-shaped like wedges thin and sharp, requiring but littleforce to cut through the flesh on which they fe:d; thestructure of the joint admits of no lateral motion, andthe whole force of the immense temporal and massetermuscles is exerted in a perpendicular or cutting direc-tion. To assist in tearing their food, the surface of thetongue is covered with numerous horny papillae. Thesemay be felt, on a small scale, on the tongue of the do-mestic cat. The tongue is rather an organ for removingmuscular fibres from bones, and for retaining flesh inthe mouth than the organ of PURE WHITE MALE. FATHER BLACK, MOTHER WHITE. FACTS AND FANCIES OF THE CAT. 69 When Sancho-Panza said, Yo no estoySentiment para dar migas a un gato — I am not fit to give crumbs to a cat — he was thinking ofhis own humiliation, and not of the diet proper to seems, however, that cats ought not to be fed withcrumbs. This we learn, and many other useful things,from an excellent little treatise on The Cat: Her Placein Society and Treatment, by Miss Edith Carrington(George Bell and Sons). Miss Carrington championsthe cause of the domestic cat, and makes out a verystrong case, if her anecdotes are to be trusted, for itssagacity, its manners, and even its morals. She thinks,with Chateaubriand, that the human race has hithertodone scant justice to the sterling qualities of this ani-mal. There is the old libel, for instance, that the catattaches itself to places, but not to persons. Yet catshave been known to die of grief at the death
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