AN APPEAL FOR THE CAT.
[To TTIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As Chairman of the Committee of the Receiving Shelters for Stray Cats Branch of "Our Dumb Friends' League," may I ask your readers to give sonic) support to this most important work ? Of all creatures the cat seems to receive the least sympathy, and yet our shelters prove that cats suffer considerably from the result of neglect and ill-treatment which they so frequently receive. Month by month we receive eats with eyes knocked out, with limbs torn by dogs, covered with sores from mange, and with every evidence of starvation and disease. The public do not see these awful sights or they would realize the need for our shelters, but I would ask them to rely on the evidence of those who are intimate with the cat shelter work, and to respond to this appeal for help to carry it on as liberally as they tan. The shelters relieve or humanely destroy annually about nine thousand cats which would, in all probability, die lingering deaths in the streets. Donations and annual subscriptions will be gratefully received if sent to the Secretary, Arthur 3'. Coke, 0.D.F.L. Offices, 58 Victoria Street, London, S.W.—I am, Sir, &c., ADA E. DUCRWORTH, Chairman, 0.D.F.L. Receiving Shelters for Stray Cate Fund.
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