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Nobody knows exactly what the cat population of the U.S. is. Of an estimated 21 million, half are house cats living in a world of Kleen Kitty and catnip mice; the rest are loners-feline bums who range the nation's alleys, waterfronts and backyards, scrounging, mousing, and yowling for handouts. Dogs (around 26 million) still lead in pet popularity, but cats are creeping up. Canned cat food is a multimillion-dollar industry, and this year sales are up 15% (1960 supermarket sales: $42,150,000). Veterinarians find that it pays to become a cat specialist, and some...
...While cats make many people sneeze and alienate others with their "sneaky" ways, the pro-cat element in the nation is growing. A champion of the cat is Milan Greer, 39, whose book, The Fabulous Feline, has just been published by Dial Press. A professional cat breeder, Greer writes with none of the "dear little pussycat" gush that marks the work of most literary cat lovers. In fact, he is suspicious of anyone who claims to love cats; cats do not love people, he declares, and they probably do not even love other cats. A plane of mutual respect...
...that had been elusive for so long." Dr. Enders, working with Dr. William McD. Hammon, promptly ran into frustration of his own. The only animals that would catch measles were monkeys, and only a few of these. The researchers thought that they had got measles virus to infect a cat, only to discover that the animal had a different virus disease: cat distemper. This led to the production of a valuable veterinary vaccine, but not what Enders was looking...
...life-like shoes. At 18, she is established in a posh Manhattan flat and living off the fatheads of the land. The flat is furnished with a bathtub (sawed in half to make a sofa), a refrigerator (containing a pair of shoes), a telephone (in a suitcase), a pink cat (without a name) and a bottle of Scotch (for wetting Holly's whistle and Scotch-and-watering the flowers). And every Thursday. Holly dutifully goes up the river to Sing Sing, where she visits a darling old narcotics trafficker named Sally Tomato. She finds it perfectly sweet that Sally...
...game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance, of being allowed to feel the lioness' abdomen during the pregnancy, and records that Elsa often would stay in camp for a day or two at a time...