Show cats nine lives we speak of a cat having nine lives of course it is not true rue that cats have more lives than one nor has it more persistent vitality than other animals but it has the advantage that even after thousands of years of domestication it retains self dependent instincts of preservation to a greater degree than say the dog or the horse A cat is more skillful in addend defending itself from attack in avoiding accident and in treating itself when it suffers injury because it has never been debilitated by too much dependence upon man but its actual vifa vitality lity bisno is no gibat greater than that of any other beast |