Tibs cat book : a reliable guide to the proper care and feeding of cats and their treatment during illness... / Bob Martin Limited.

  • Bob Martin Limited.
Date:
1948
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tibs cat book : a reliable guide to the proper care and feeding of cats and their treatment during illness... / Bob Martin Limited. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    met once cut off the skirt of his garment, rather than disturb the cat which lay sleeping on it. In his Life of St. Gregory the Great, Jacobus Diaconus tells us that the great Christian “‘ possessed no- thing in the world except a:cat, which he carried in his bosom, frequently caressing it, as his sole companion.” One of the earliest cat-lovets in this country must have been Hywel Dda, Prince of South Wales, who in the year 936 A.D. made a special law for the protection of cats. He controlled the ptice of a kitten at one penny when blind, two
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