CATS ON GUARD
THEY HAVE THEIR "RATION BOOKS" IN BRITAIN Even cats are being mobilised in Britain to-day to help the war effort. Warehouse cats guarding stocks of essential foodstuffs against the ravages of rats and mice are now allowed a priority supply of powdered milk. This milk, which lias been damaged in transit and is therefore unfit foT human consumption, also goes t© animal hospitals. Ration books for cats are issued by the Ministry of Food to warehouse keepers. The concession is applicable, first to cats kept for the destruction of vermin in warehouses nnd stores in which at least 250 tons of food or feeding stuffs are stored, and secondly to veterinary hospitals and similar institutions for the feeding of sick animals. Many hospitals in Britain keep a regular staff of cats as a guard ngainst mice. "Warehouses are supplied by Our Dumb Friends' League with cats suitable for guarding stores of food. The League -iris taken on the task of looking after eats bombed out oT their homes. The percentage c.£ deaths of cats and other .domestic animals actually killed by bombs daring the heavy raids of Britain in very low indeed. Like dogs, eats are keen to scent danger, and it is believed that their intuition has helped :nany people to escape injni'y from bombs.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 8
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219CATS ON GUARD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 8
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