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Title: The Angora cat; how to breed train and keep it;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: James, Robert Kent, (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: Boston, James bros.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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made so by bad management and harsh treat-ment, will be very apt to transmit those qualities to itsdescendants, though they may be modified some by theinfluence of the other parent, and more perhaps, by kindtreatment. Certain tricks and ways in the cat seem to be inheritedby the kittens, or to be more easily learned by them thanby kittens whose parents had never been taught suchtricks, but this may in part be due to the imitative faculty.An old cat which had been taught by a boy to perch onhis shoulder, instead of taking the position more usualamong cats, in his lap, has had several kittens, all ofwhich climb to the shoulders of the members of the fam-ily as soon as they can climb at all. Jumping throughhoops or over obstacles are tricks often taught to cats,and if female cats their kittens soon learn to perform thesame feats. The breeders of cats will find not only much amuse-ment in educating their pets in various ways, but morein watching to see how far the influence of such teach-
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BREEDING AND MATING. 2 J ing will extend to the next or later generations, until thetask laboriously learned by the first may become an in-stinct or an inherited quality. In breeding to fix or establish a certain type in cats asin other animals or in poultry, some breeders have feltobliged to resort to Or mating together of close relations as beingInbreeding, more alike in the point to be fixed than two would be from different families. While in suchcases it sometimes seems to accomplish the desired resultas can be done in no other way, it should be avoidedwhenever possible. It has a tendency to weaken the con-stitution of the offspring and to impair the health andvigor, even sometimes to the extent of causing barren-ness. A more preferable way of reaching the same result offixing the type or characteristics of a breed is what iscal led Breeding This differs from inbreeding, in that three m or more generations are allowed to pass before breeding back into the same blood, and thenit is

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