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Show lib AT IS FRIEND OF CANARIES. liet Woman Trains Pets Not to iHarm the Feathered Soug-sters. cat likes canary birds not to eat, irk you, but for social purposes. A ftthat will associate with mice v.ith-t' v.ith-t' killing them. A cat that will peril, per-il, nay welcome, the visitation of ithcred pets and never lay claw or jth upon the defenseless creatures. Did you ever hear of such a cat? Did u e"er believe, much less know, that feline temperament and instinct uld be brought to such a pass? Us. W. F. Uadley of Joliet ycsler-y, ycsler-y, produced surh a cat before an ns-rhblage ns-rhblage of the members of the No-iifal No-iifal Cat club of America. Mrs. Gad-iIs Gad-iIs a newspaper writer and editor. She has a cat named Pauline which s" been so carefully trained that it F'forgotten all of its carnivorous in-lilcts. in-lilcts. She will neither kill birds, Ive or rats but on being brought into ireonal relations with such creatures 111 evince eery indication of frlend- Bi.. wullne thus threatens to become a itogln point for the destruction of all lewles about the cat tribe. It has sen said that no cat could be trained fjlgnorc its pative passion for feath-ted feath-ted prey. (Recently Mrs. Gadley brought her jit, Pauline before a staid and dlstin-Ished dlstin-Ished assemblage of cat lovers. Two knarles were part of the display. The trds on being released from their iges flew lo Pauline as to a natural irotector. They sat upon her furry fgfeat, pecked at her whiskers and K "areed at her long, tufty tail, y Pauline purred and stroked at her Sthery attendants. She gave evl-'j evl-'j Jnce that their audacity amused her Ithout em-aglng her. 9 t nas the best show that the Nn- 6jial Cat club of Chicago has ever i ul, for It made away with the theory i it cats cannot be trained Into friend-ff! friend-ff! iens with bird ilfe. It makes away m lh the story that a cat is the most H ilflsh and least tractable of all beasts. wl &es a new pace for all cat lover?, "'S nclers, breeders and specialists, for yl ver before has It been shown that ,7 its and birds could be made friendly jmun any way compatible. , jJBin the demonstration at 70 Adams 1 rqfccot a green "love birds" was set free d this tiny imitation of a paroquet, 4i4Arrt or pluqulna, not content with LiljTetini the amiable cat, made bold 'ie,,PUll her tall, to peck at her whiskers (jfWtl to clutch with sharp claws at her .BTy eaiu. By all of these assaults the (jjiiPlne was unmoved. jrfM?riVi paper read before the club Mrs. ftdjy said: "I am tired hearing that ' Uf V ,s a hostile ci-eature. Here is t t f that loes sont' birds and will not irm them. Here is a. cat with gentle 'i Miners, high education and an under-' andlng of nurtured life. Pauline is a is1! ect la1T cat. Well raised, well J used, perfectly educated, she is a llv-"i llv-"i S repudiation of all the lies that have rt'Jff en guessed and written about cats." 9 ilcago Chronicle. |