CHAMPION CAT

Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 12

CHAMPION CAT

SAVED FROM DEATH A silver and blue cat, whose life story is one of the romances of cat land, was exhibited lately at the Crystal Palace, London, where the National Cat Club held its forty-second show. Born in 1928, the cat was the property of a woman who was so poor that she could not afford to keep him. Rather than run the risk of letting him starve in the streets, she arranged for him to be destroyed. Fate intervened in a curious way. Just as the cat was about to be put into the lethal chamber a woman who wanted a silver and blue cat called at the depot on the chance of finding one. She loved the cat as soon as she saw him, and bought him for ten shillings. Thin and in bad condition, he soon responded to lier kind treatment, and grew so handsome that she decided to show him publicly. Since then he has won forty prizes. The cat was the admiration of all visitors to the late show. They called him “ The Bridegroom.” He was in a cage lined with white satin, and outside the bars were fastened two bunches of white narcissi. His wonderful coat glowed with a pearly white light. New blue and cream cats were also exhibited. Their coats are said to resemble shot silk.