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- Zerolene Ad
- Young Persian Kitten
Young Persian Kitten - Wounded lion
[A drawing taken from a bas relief of the royal Assyrian lion hunt] - Wolves running
- Wolves hunting a deer
Wolves hunting a deer - Wolves
Wolves - Wolf pack
- Wolf Head
Wolf Head - Wolf
Wolf - Wolf
Wolf - Wise cat
- Wild Cat shown at the Crystal Palace Cat Show, 1871
Wild Cat shown at the Crystal Palace Cat Show, 1871 - White Persian - 'Lambkin 2'
White Persian - 'Lambkin 2' - White Persian 'Tim'
White Persian 'Tim' - White Persian 'Miss Whitey'
White Persian 'Miss Whitey' - White Cat, winner of many prizes
White Cat, winner of many prizes - White cat - prize winner in 1879
White cat - prize winner in 1879 - White Angora
White Angora - What is it
Kittens watching a mouse - Well-marked Silver Black-banded Tabby
Well-marked Silver Black-banded Tabby - Wasn't me
- was glad ... that she had not died elsewhere
- very Light Blue Tabby, 'Sylvie'.
very Light Blue Tabby, 'Sylvie'. - Unusual Long Haired Cat
Unusual Long Haired Cat - Two Wolves
Two Wolves Black and White Ware. 11 by 5½ inches. Osborn Ruin. - Two wolf pups
- Two puppies and a cat
Two puppies and a cat - Two kittens playing on a suitcase
- Two kittens playing
- Two kittens play fighting
- Two kittens
- Two dogs
- Two dogs
- Two dogs
- Two dogs
- Two cats running
Two cats running - Two cats
- Two cats
Two cats - Tutored Bear.—XIV. Century
One great part of the joculator's profession was the teaching of bears, apes, horses, dogs, and other animals, to imitate the actions of men, to tumble, to dance, and to perform a variety of tricks, contrary to their nature; and sometimes he learned himself to counterfeit the gestures and articulations of the brutes. - Tutored Bear.—XIV. Century
One great part of the joculator's profession was the teaching of bears, apes, horses, dogs, and other animals, to imitate the actions of men, to tumble, to dance, and to perform a variety of tricks, contrary to their nature; and sometimes he learned himself to counterfeit the gestures and articulations of the brutes. - Trapping a polar bear
Trapping a polar bear - Tortoiseshell-and-white Cat, finely marked
Tortoiseshell-and-white Cat, finely marked - Tortoise Shell Manx
Tortoise Shell Manx - Tired of play
Tired of play - Tiger head
Tiger head - Tiger Cub
- Tiger
- Tiger
- Three kittens and a basket
- Three kittens
- Thomas
- There was a useless battle
- The Wolf among the Sheep. (John x. 12)
There is no doubt that the Hebrew word Zeëb, which occurs in a few passages of the Old Testament, is rightly translated as Wolf, and signifies the same animal as is frequently mentioned in the New Testament. - The Polar, or great white bear
The Polar, or great white bear - The Polar bear and her cubs
The monarch of the Arctic regions, the monstrous white bear there reigns supreme. Savage and ferocious as is his consort, as well as he, she shows the utmost affection for her young. I have a sad tale to tell. The crew of an exploring vessel in the Arctic Seas had killed a walrus, and set fire to part of the blubber. The steam of the flesh drew from afar towards it a she bear and her two cubs. Putting their noses to the tempting mess, they began to eat it eagerly. The seamen, seeing this, threw other pieces on the ice nearer to the ship. The bear incautiously approached, carrying off the pieces, which she bestowed on her cubs, and, though evidently famished, taking but a small portion herself. The thoughtless sailors shot the two cubs, and again firing, wounded the mother. Though she herself was barely able to crawl to the spot where they lay, she carried to them the last lump of blubber, endeavouring to make them eat it. Discovering that they were unable to do so, she endeavoured to raise first one, and then the other; but in vain. She now began to retreat; but her motherly feelings overcoming her, though conscious of the danger she was running, she returned to where they lay, moaning mournfully. Several times did she thus behave, when, seemingly convinced that her young ones were cold and helpless, she cast a reproachful glance towards the vessel whence the cruel bullets had proceeded, and uttered a low growl of angry despair which might have moved the hearts even of the most callous. A shower of musket bullets, however, laid her low between her two cubs, and she died licking their wounds. - The Lion and his Den. (Ezek. xix. 2)
An animal so destructive among the flocks and herds could not be allowed to carry out its depredations unchecked, and as we have already seen, the warfare waged against it has been so successful, that the Lions have long ago been fairly extirpated in Palestine. The usual method of capturing or killing the Lion was by pitfalls or nets, to both of which there are many references in the Scriptures. - The Lion
The Lion - The dog took kindly to her foster-children
A wolf had an ordinary family of eight young ones. The keepers, probably thinking that these were too many for the captive wolf to bring up alone, divided the family. Four of them were left with their mother, and four of them were placed in charge of a collie. The dog took kindly to her foster-children, and reared them successfully with her own. - The Chief of the Clan
A domestic cat sitting before a picture of a male lion - The Cat and the Pigeon
Affection for one of the feathered race was shown by a cat which was rearing several kittens. In another part of the loft a pigeon had built her nest; but her eggs and young having been frequently destroyed by rats, it seemed to occur to her that she should be in safer quarters near the cat. Puss, pleased with the confidence placed in her, invited the pigeon to remain near her, and a strong friendship was established between the two. They fed out of the same dish; and when Puss was absent, the pigeon, in return for the protection afforded her against the rats, constituted herself the defender of the kittens—and on any person approaching nearer than she liked, she would fly out and attack them with beak and wings, in the hope of driving them away from her young charges. Frequently, too, after this, when neither the kittens nor her own brood required her care, and the cat went out about the garden or fields, the pigeon might be seen fluttering close by her, for the sake of her society.