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Rh eat insects. A full-grown cat may catch as many as fifty birds a year in a locality where birds are numerous. The birds destroyed include the smaller wild ones, Bob White, the ruffed grouse, the heath hen, pheasants, and partridges.

Two cats, that had tasted birds, were tied in a yard by their collars to prevent their hunting. They imitated the call of the robin and were able to attract several birds to them which they killed. Another cat, that had hunted as a kitten, was belled to prevent her catching birds. She brought in thirty-two birds one season and twenty-eight the next, although she had six bells on her collar.

It is said that there are many million valuable wild birds killed every year in the United States by cats. The value of cats as mousers is not great. A trap is just as good for a mouse or a rat. It would seem that the value of pussy, then, is only that of a pet, and one cat is about all any boy or girl can well care for. Your cat needs good feeding, in the first place, for hunger makes her hunt. People who are studying wild life for the

"I'VE NEVER CAUGHT A BIRD AND I AM PROUD OF MY LEASH"