THE LONDON CAT

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 104, 30 October 1933, Page 13

THE LONDON CAT

LEGAL RIGHTS FOR PUSS

"A representative of one of the animal welfare societies tells me that the position of the London eat has greatly improved in recent years," states a London writer. "The Act passed a few years ago changing its status from that of a wild animal to a cjorriestic animal, and giving it all the legal rights which had previously belonged only to the domestic dog had made a considerable impression, she thought, on the public. Another change is that there are not so many stray cats about since people have learned that it is not kind to let unwanted kittens grow up.

"My informant is convinced that the conduct and nature of cats have also improved. As a child she used to keep a great number of cats at a time, and sho remembers -most of them as wild, furtive creatures. In those days they were not petted as they are now, and out of doors or in the' streets a cat was liable to be chased from pillar to post. It would not have dared to lie sleeping on the sunny side of a street as it does, now. The cat of today is not half so wild as her childhood's friends. It has much more confidence, in human beings and has responded to more humane treatment by developing greater intelligence «ncl affection." ■ ■