CHAMPION CATS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1911, Page 12

CHAMPION CATS.

c ,—, — MR. LOUIS WAIN'S OPINION. "A massed gathering of the elite of cats," the National Cat Club terms its twenty-third annual show, a two days' exhibition which opened on 6th December in the Crystal Palace. The exhibits numbered nearly 450, and represented every known breed and Variety of domestic cat, the widely differing colours of the pets making the most striking contrasts along the rows of silk-hung pens. In the afternoon, when a jury of womon judges and one male expert — Mr. Louis Wain — met within a ting of chairs to consider claimahts for the championships, there was a rare press of gentle cat fanciers, the outermost standing on j chairs to see the awards mado. j In regard to the suggestion made by the Daily Mail that the National Cat Club should inaugurate trials for eats in the business of rat and mouse catching, Mr. Edward T. Cox, the secretary, dib- j puted the theory that the shdw cat is useless as a destroyer of Vermin. "I would guarantee," he said, "that 99 of every 100 > cats in this . show, pets as they are, would know what to do, and would do it, if they sa\V a mouse. " On the other hand. Mr. Louis Wain hold the opinion that cats kept in catteri*s. and ueed to regular feeding, wouid not play a very useful part as hiohsers. Asked what vaaefcy of cat ho considered best for the purpose under discussion, lie replied : "Black cats are always the best hunters, according to my experience."- > I

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