PLAY TO YOUR PETS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22319, 5 February 1938, Page 5 (Supplement)

PLAY TO YOUR PETS

Have you ever tried ploying to your pets, Most animals are fond of music, ond whot fun you con hove amusing your tame white mice, or your old friend Bruno . Don t leave out the cat, either, for he has a musical ear, as the following little facts will show you :

Cats like music. Once there was a famous composer called Scarlatti, whose , cat always watched him' at ’work. One day she jumped on to the keyboard, and to his amazement did not do this just aimlessly, but selected certain notes in preference to others. Scarlatti wrote down those notes, and today that tune lives, and is named “The Cat Fugue”

Rats, mice, and dogs like music, too. Once there was a man who invented a special mousetrap with a music-box attached to it, and the music drew the mice into the trap two or three at a time. It seems rather a cruel way to catch those mischievous little mice, but it certainly acted. They did like music

Elephants and camels are very fond of music, but many of the wild animals, such as wolves and jackals do not like it. Spiders, surprisingly enough, like music, and monkeys have been trained to play instruments. Snakes love music, and if one came into your room you would be perfectly safe as long as you had the courage to keep on playing to the reptile