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Looking After Cats - Page 3
Cat Maturity
Regarding maturity, the female cat comes to maturity at about six months old; the male when he
is nine months old, but it is really a mistake to breed from any cat until they are at least one
year old.
As a rule, anyone who is going to keep a cat for the first time tries to get a fairly young one.
When taken to its new home, it is often felt by many that your cat should be shut up in a room for
a time, by himself. The chimney and the windows must be closed.
The cat will wander round inspecting
the place, and it is just as well not to interfere with him at this time. There is an old remedy for
preventing a cat from running back to its old home at the first opportunity; it is said that all you
have to do is to I butter her paws and she will then remain in the new home; as a matter of fact,
the effect of this remedy is merely to give I the cat something to do.
The cat is a very clean animal,
and if you put any I grease on her paws she will spend a long time in licking it off, and perhaps by
the time she has cleaned her paws she has become accustomed to her new home.
If the cat is about six months old she has probably been housetrained, which is a very simple
matter with cats, after all they are very intelligent. Many town cats, especially certain breeds,
such as Ragdolls, are never allowed outside their homes.
Cats and Flies
Care should be taken to see that the cat has no opportunity of eating flies, which are deadly
poison to them. Towards the end of the season many cats are made ill every year by eating flies
which they have caught on windowpanes when the flies are very sleepy.
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