Notes and Events.
—. » w Take care of your pussies. In America the Judges have solemnly declared the cat is a wild animal. It greatly depends how you handle. that useful animal. If the law could be used. against a cat that sits a housetop, 'find -.addresses its fellows from that commanding position all night, there would be something in it, but even ther>t.he wild animal is ' gene{ rally the" main, not the cat. .It ia.a,re.velatf.on. to. learn that in one country there is no property in a cat. The taking of a cat without the consent of its owner is not an indictable offence — in America. Is this the ease in England ? Does anybody know ? Perhaps those Wellington boys, who . sbmo years ago, when a merchant there was buying up cats for the Wairarapa, stole his own pet cat and sold it to him, knew they were right and were correctly dealing in wild animals. It is to be hoped so for the ease of their consciences.
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Manawatu Herald, 25 May 1895, Page 3
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