Cats Big and Small - Page 7
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Then we launch into a world of lesser cats; the golden cat of the Indo-Malay' area, which has a
gray Chinese
cousin; the fishing cat which truly catches fish, but little children and hosts of animals as well; the leopard
cat, the serval, the tiger cat, the eyra, a weasel-like type; the Egyptian or Kaffir cat, from which our own pussy
cats are believed to descend; all these and more, including the fine old wild cat of Britain, stubborn and
untamable up in its last retreat, the Highland deer forests, come into the cat family. Each one is Destiny to
some order of herbivores.
There are others, and we must note the cheetah, more cat than dog, yet not quite cat either, a leopard-like beast
with claws resembling a dog's, and therefore not capable of freely working in and out of their sheaths. This animal
is remarkable as the one, which is caught young and trained to hunt like a dog, its quarry being the swift deer of
India. A cheetah runs down the fleetest of herbivores, and is regarded as the fastest of all runners for any
distance up to about 400 yards.
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