Hints Upon Breeding And Rearing Cats For Exhibition, And a Word About Cat-shows.

Hints Upon Breeding And Rearing Cats For Exhibition, And a Word About Cat-shows.

At nearly all the cat-shows which I have visited of late, I have been invariably impressed with this one idea: here, in these shows, we see pussy as she is in the present day the live mouse-trap, the barn cat, at best the fireside favourite but, at all events, the animal, of all our domestic animals, that is least cared for, and the only animal we possess, whose improvement in condition and species we have never cared to study. What this animal the domestic cat can become, the perfection to which she may attain through judicious selection and careful breeding, it is for future years to show.