The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it; . rmer friends than ever Ihad in my kennels. Of course there are disreputablecats, just as there are disreputable dogs and disreputablemen and women, but that is more a matter of miseduca-tion, or lack of education, than any natural inclinationto go wrong. Most cats respect themselves. Theyhave a great deal of natural dignity, and if a slight is putupon them they feel it keenly. Dogs will suffer all sortsof indignities from their masters, and kiss the feet thatkick them. But if a cats self-respect is hurt, he resentsit; he does not soon forgive,
The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it; . rmer friends than ever Ihad in my kennels. Of course there are disreputablecats, just as there are disreputable dogs and disreputablemen and women, but that is more a matter of miseduca-tion, or lack of education, than any natural inclinationto go wrong. Most cats respect themselves. Theyhave a great deal of natural dignity, and if a slight is putupon them they feel it keenly. Dogs will suffer all sortsof indignities from their masters, and kiss the feet thatkick them. But if a cats self-respect is hurt, he resentsit; he does not soon forgive, and rarely forgets it. Ican easily see how the ancient Egyptians came to ven-erate the feline race. One of their deities, Aeluris, hada cats head on a human body, and we are told byDiodorus that at one time whoever killed a cat in Egypt,even by accident, was put to death. I brought homefrom the land of the Pharaohs, long before I became in-terested in the living animals, the mummy of a cat, em-balmed, swathed and encased with as much care as was. A MOTHER AND FAMILY. KITTENS, 7 WEEKS OLD. FACTS AND FANCIES OF THE CAT. 93 given to human bodies. The old Romans, too, respectedthe cat. The Roman Goddess of liberty was repre-sented with a cat lying at her feet. No animal, youknow, is so great an enemy to constraint as a cat. Still, cats are teachable, as many patrons of thevariety theatres who have seen the cat circuses, andthe more limited number of persons who have essayedthe task of instructing their pets will testify. Severalof my cats will perform all the tricks that dogs know I am their friend and will not hurt them, andthey very quickly comprehend what I want them to do. If it wasnt for making myself conspicuous I wouldput some of them through their paces at the comingpoultry show in Mechanics building, where there is tobe a department allotted to cats. As it is, I shall ex-hibit several specimens of each variety that I you like to see some of them ? T
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