Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments

No one in the ship had the slightest idea how Tom came on board, or who brought him, or where he came from. He made his first appearance in public while, outward bound, we were...

The entrance into the world, of the immortal hero of the following adventures, is veiled in the darkest and most inky obscurity. Whence he came, or where he had resided previous...

particular morning, somehow or other, the miller felt peculiarly nervous. It was so dark, and everything was so still, and being Christmas morning, what more likely than that he...

While I was yet a little school-boy, there came about my father's house and premises a plague of rats. They came in their thousands, as if summoned by the trumpet-tones of a rod...

I think it my duty to warn the reader that this is essentially a chapter of horrors; so that if her or his feelings do not tend in that direction, it may be skipped. If it pains...

"It wouldn't have surprised me a bit, doctor," said my gallant captain to me, on the quarter-deck of the saucy _Pen-gun_,--"It wouldn't have surprised me a bit, if they had sent...

But touching cats' tails (it wouldn't be the best policy to touch every cat's tail however), a lady asked me seriously at dinner the other day, "Why does a cat waggle its tail?"...

As the present work is not by any means intended to partake of the scientific, but is written solely with the view of gaining for the domestic cat her proper position in society...

Of course, in one chapter--and that is all my available space--it will be impossible to notice all, or even the greater part, of the evils that feline flesh is heir to. I will e...

Few people now-a-days think of denying, that man's noble friend the dog possesses a large amount, of what can only be termed reason. I myself believe, that almost every animal d...

A careful and fond mother is our pussy-cat. In no case is her wisdom and sagacity better exhibited than in the love and care she displays for her offspring. Weeks before the int...

Are cats more attached to places than to persons? I have taken considerable pains to arrive at a correct answer to this question, and not satisfied with my own judgment and expe...

"_Is_ cats to be trusted?" was to have been the title of an essay from the pen of poor Artemus Ward. "_Is_ cats to be trusted?" my starling has been taught to repeat, and often...

"As many lives as a cat," and "a cat has nine lives," are sayings which we hear almost every day. The truth of the latter we must all acknowledge; not indeed as regards the impu...

The cat, unlike most animals, seems singularly exempt from the pains of parturition. "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth," was never meant to apply to pussy. In fact about this ti...

Next to a cat's love for children, if there is one thing more than another that ought to make one love her and respect her as a pet, it is the extreme patience which she evinces...

The cat is more than any other creature the pet of our early years. Almost the first animal we notice, when we are old enough to notice anything, is pussy, with her beautiful ma...

Some of the tricks which cats perform are highly amusing. Of course I refer to our fireside puss, and not to publicly performing cats; these require special training, and a larg...

Catching mice is, to a proper-minded cat, a mere parlour pastime, only to be resorted to on rainy days, or of a night when too restless to sleep. It stands to pussy in the same...

Cats are, as a rule, averse to water in every shape. If every one of us were as much afraid of getting damp feet, there would be much less coughing in church and theatre. Parson...

Now, after reading the chapter on cruelty to cats, surely every honest man and kind-hearted lady in the land will agree with me in thinking, that it is high time our Legislature...

You might have travelled many a long summer's day and not met with such another. The very look of him was enough to dispel all ideas of hunger: he was so big and so stout, yet w...

I have already shown in former chapters, how loving and affectionate pussy is towards her master and mistress, and how thoughtful and kind a mother she is. But to her playmates...

Cock-Jock, as he was called, was the most famous of a famous breed of cocks, our family had possessed for many years. Descended from the black-cock of the mountain, with plumage...

Gentle Reader,--I throw myself on your leniency. The other day my publisher beckoned me into his private office, behind the shop--a sanctum chiefly remarkable for the solemn air...

Even supposing it to be endowed with the nine lives ascribed to the race, was it at all probable that I would be successful in rearing to mature cathood that dripping little wre...

There are few, if any cats, that can withstand the temptation to occasionally roam abroad, and lead for a while the life of a gipsy puss. Perhaps pussy thinks she has as much ri...

Numerous instances of the honesty of well-trained cats might be given. My own cat and travelling companion Muffie, has always taken her place on the table at meals, and I have n...

In the parish of P----, Aberdeenshire, there lived some years ago a crofter and his wife, and a little boy their only son. A fine she-tabby cat who nightly sang duets with the k...

Ten miles along dusty roads in a hilly country, and on a hot summer's day, was rather fatiguing, and I was glad to find the ploughman's cottage, or rather hut, at last. It was p...

Yes, far-seeing reader, you are right, it is a Scotch cat. In England a deficient educational scheme is dead against the chance of any such anomaly. In some parts of bonnie Scot...

Such was the advice an Irish friend gave me, when I talked of an introductory chapter to the present work on cats. I think it was a good one. Whether it be owing to our style of...