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Cats Are Dangerous

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. · Sep 19, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 38.

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Cats Are Dangerous

THERE is little difference in cats, and that difference is only that of degrees of badness. Take them in their social grades, the back-yard sloper, the spinster's “tabby,” and the long-haired blue-ribbon wearer, who feasts on sirloin and sleeps on a silk cushion. The first is worst, the second worse, and the third bad. There is no health in them. As a race they are extremely dangerous to humanity. As disease disseminators they are as great a menace as the rat, and we are exterminating the rat because it spreads the bubonic plague.—E. R. Pritchard, Secretary Chicago Health Department.