INTELLIGENCE OF A CAT.

Waikato Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1550, 10 June 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

INTELLIGENCE OF A CAT.

Several years ago my grandfather moved from bis farm into the oity, Among the domestic aoimala on the place At that time was an old oat with one small kitten. These they intended to leave, placing the kitten in a room where a broken pane of glass would allow the oat to pass baok and forth at will. The last load waa nearly ready to start, when my father, who waa making some final preparations, was attracted by an exclamation of surprise from his mother, and looking arouud, he beheld the cat strutting along with the kitten dangling from her month. Wiihont any interference on the part of the ladies, who were on the waggon, or by any member of the family, she marched directly to the load, and after surveying it for a moment, jumped upon it, whore, after a short search, she chose an inverted table and placed her oharge in it. It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add that she was not left at the farm. This story hau a double obarm for me. In the first plaoe, I know it to be true ; secondly, it shows remarkable intelligence in the subject of it. We fell know ho it waiohfal a oat is of her kittens, and how eager slur is to carry them baok whoa removed from their bed, so it seems altogether out of the usual ooiirse, wbea one, of her ovra aooord, removes, as this one did, kuowiag undoubtedly that they weie to be taken away.— AT. H. Hurd,