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Title: The cat, a guide to the classification and varieties of cats and a short tratise upon their care, diseases, and treatment
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Huidekoper, Rush Shippen, 1854-1901
Subjects: Cats
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cefnl. The legs are thinand short. The neck is long and small, andthe feet are long. The Manx Cat. The Manx Cat differs from the ordinary catonly in Ijeing tailless, or nearly so, the mostchoice families not having any tail at all. Ifthey have a short rudimentary tail it shouldbe boneless; but sometimes they have short,thin, twisted tails, or tails in the shape of aknob. Some Manx Cats, however, have verylong tails, even ten inches in length. The hindlegs are proportionately longer and somewhatheavy, which gives the cat when running orjumping somewhat of the action of a rabbit;but this is more imaginaiy than real, and thesupposed similarity is due rather to the char-acter of the tail. Most Manx Cats are rathersmallish, with a head small for their size, seton a thick and long neck. The ej^es are large^ 72 THE CAT round, and full. Tlie ears are medium-sized,rounded at the apex, and hairless within. TheManx Cat varies in color, ranning to Tabbiesand all the mixed colors. A white Manx Cat
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Fig. 21.—Manx Cat. is practically unknown, and black ones are ex-cessivety rare. The Manx Cat really can beclassed as a monstrosity, having been devel-oped probably by the interbreeding of somefreak of nature in the form of a cat which in-habited the Island of Man at an early period. VABIETIES 73 An ordinary cat can easily be rendered tail-less if operated on at a young age; and as thisis often done, especial attention should be paidto see that the absent tail is natural and thatthere is no scar as evidence of operative inter-ference, or, as such things are called in dogshows, faking. CHAPTER lY. CAEE OF THE CAT. THE care of the cat is of very much moreimportance iu the close surrouudings ofcity life than it is in the country, where theanimal has as much freedom as the barefooted,half-dressed l)oy who can be trusted to run thefarm over, and is supposed to be safe whetherrooting in the garden of vegetables, sunflowers,and hollyhocks, playing in the calf-pen, or in-vestigating the pou

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