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The mating of two common cats is equally unpredictable

The mating of two common cats is equally unpredictable. Often as not a pair of attractively marked parents will produce babies with random spots and blotches — black eyes, striped noses, and so forth — that are most unbecoming. The same may be true of size and shape. A compact, neatly built mother cat may find her youngsters growing up to be thin-shanked, lean-bodied critters with no family resemblance at all.

If the owner likes cats impartially this will be no problem. Certainly it has never troubled cats. They are not self-conscious about aesthetic defects; none has ever felt out of place at a social gathering.

As a matter of fact, cats of all breeds always try to look as presentable as circumstances allow, and seem to have an eye for tasteful backgrounds — white bedspreads, red chairs, bouquets of flowers — which set them off to advantage. There may be other, simpler reasons for it, but there is no denying that cats have a sense of the dramatic. Every cat, whether a pure-bred Persian lolling on a silken pillow or a nameless waif resting beside an alley trash can, looks as though she expected to be looked at and, better still, admired.

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