Cats And All About Them

ISBN-13: 9781443768542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 172 str.

Frances Simpson

Opis

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PREFACE IT has been suggested to me by many of my catty friends that I should write a small handbook for cat fanciers. By arrangement with the Kennel Publishing Company I have been enabled to utilise the paragraphs of Practical Pussyology which have appeared during the last fifteen months in Our Cats. I have had many years experience with cats and kittens, and have also a real love for them, without which I do not believe any one to be a successful breeder and exhibitor of cats. What is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and to combine profit with pleasure is a most desirable end to have in view. The object, therefore, of this little book is to assist cat lovers to become cat fanciers. I trust that it may be found helpful and instructive, A lovely Blue female, owned by Lady Marcns Beresfard, and bred by Mrs. OBrien Clarke. Her sire was Goliath, a superb cat for size and colour. Gentian was a prize-winner at Westminster in 1899, when her marvellous coat excited general admiration was bred by Rev. P. L. Cosway, his present owner, from Angela and 131ue Noble.....