Little children, who do not know what delicate nerves are bound up
with their cat's whiskers, are often the cause of great suffering to
their pets.
Have you ever looked at your cat's eyes? How well she sees in places
that seem dark to us! In what way are her eyes different from ours?
At noon, the black spot in a cat's eye is only a narrow slit, but as the
light grows less bright, the pupil of the eye grows rounder and larger.
In this way her eyes gather in more and more light as darkness comes on,
so that at twilight she can easily find her way. When it is really dark,
her sensitive whiskers help her to feel what she cannot see.
Pussy's tail is part of her backbone or spine, which is made up as
carefully and delicately as our spines are. If we pull a cat's tail, we
run the risk of giving her as severe pain as we should feel if our
spines were hurt.
Dogs and cats have been seriously hurt by forcing their heads into empty
cans that have contained meat or soup. Sometimes they are not able to
free themselves. Their terror is pitiable, and if not found they may run
into some hiding place and die a miserable death. It would be easy to
see that a can, when emptied, is pounded out of shape, so that no animal
can get its head into it.
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