CAT RACING.

Evening Star, Issue 4145, 9 June 1876, Page 3

CAT RACING.

Since the siege of Paris a great deal of interest in the breeding and training of hbming-pigeqns has been created by the admirable service rendered by these swift-flying messengers from the besieged inhabitants of that city to friends outside.' The birds in which the homing powers were found to be the most strongly developed, were of a breedof Belgion pigeons now pretty generally known as Antwerpa. This homing faculty, it seems, a Belgian Society is now endeavoring to develop in the domestic felines of that country, by inaugurating cat-races on. much the same principle as the pigeon-flying matches. A cat race was very recently instituted in Liepe. There were thirty-seven competitors, all of which .were liberated some distance' from the town, and the prize was awarded to the animal which reached its Lome in that town first. They wore started at 2 p.m., but the distance they had to traverse is not stated j suffice it to say that the first prife. animal won in a canter, as he arrived home at 6.48 p.m., the same evening, the second cat not appearing until 2.24 the following morning.