This section is from the book "How To Train Dogs And Cats", by Frederick H. Erb, Jr. Also available from Amazon: How To Train Dogs And Cats.
Cats are great pets in many homes. This is right, for what is nicer than a well behaved, affectionate cat?
They can be trained to do all manner of tricks by following the same rules I have given for training trick dogs, and many pleasant hours can be so spent in teaching them.
If I ever go into the show business, I will have about one hundred cats of different breeds and teach them to do some wonderful tricks.

CATS.
To keep a cat sound and healthy, feed it milk and raw eggs, and this will also make a good mouser of it, as it will have to hunt for whatever meat it wants.
Use an Erb collar on it, as you would on a dog and it will neither leave home nor fight, nor will it have any unnecessary sickness from the sweating of a dirty collar.
Cats fight by biting and scratching, and a cat will not risk a second encounter with a cat protected by an Erb collar.
 
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