Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour, Health

    Discusses an article in the Weekly Dispatch describing how some 'people in Edinburgh have recently established a home for cats, which may have been abandoned by their owners'. Notes the difficulty of abandoning and starving a cat (owing to its tendency to return home and to steal food), and the problem of identifying a 'deserted cat'. Concludes by reflecting on the people who have set up this home.