NOT PISH BUT FISHHOOKS.
, X-rays, an anaesthetic, and a,, surgical operation have saved tho life of a cat which was'foolish enough.:to svvalloiv a fishhook. Perhaps it was-; a secret greod that made hor do anything.-so stupid, but there does not seem'to .have been a fish'on tlie hook to make it attractive. She simply had a habit of picking up buttons, coins, nails,, aad
.Take the scissors and cut out the black pieces and see if you can put them together so as to make the picture of<a.-;goatr.in the corner. 'You'll have to use all the pieces,, so cut them carefully- and lit : . tharn neatly. ■"...'.
pins, so that when she became ill it wai suspected that something of' the sort had happened.l ■ " • ;■'■"" ] The hook was discovered, near' the heart, and as it is seldom that a foreign body near the heart is successfully; removed, in animals' or human beings, Pussy was luckjr. to come'through it alive. She was lucky, too, in having" iv master willing to go to all this. trouble and oxpenso to save hey 'from her'folly. -J ' .: .- -. - .' ..;.-.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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