HOMELESS CATS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.",] SIR,—Among the 240 homeless eats taken in by the Bywater Street (Chelsea) Shelter during August, 64 were too weak from starvation to be able to stand. A servant, living in one of the squares near Queen's Gate, wrote to Bywater Street last week asking the Secretary to go and see for herself the number of miserable, starved, and thirsty cats that came if anyone took food and stood at the open space near Stanhope Gardens, South Kensington, and called " puss." The Secretary went as desired. "They came in crowds, big and little, diseased, famished, and most terribly thirsty." At Miss Kate Cording's Shelter for Lost Cats (31 Trinity Street, Islington), 1,829 cats and dogs were rescued or received during last month. We consider ourselves a humane people.—I am,
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