No matter whether sending your cat for exhibition, service, or sale, it is your duty to see that it occupies a suitable hamper, or travelling-box, with secure fastenings, as cats occasionally make their escape during transit, and there is difficulty in obtaining anything more than £2 in compensation unless its value has been declared by the sender at the time of dispatch, and a trifling additional fee paid for such. Lined hampers, with a good bedding of straw, do very well. Special boxes and hampers are sold for this purpose by those dealing in dog and cat requisites.

Always label plainly, and give a feed of raw meat before dispatch.

Avoid sending by any but main lines whenever possible.

All show hampers should be plainly labelled both inside and out, and kept in dry places when not required for use, and, on return, such had better be fumigated.