Cats
The White Persian was especially popular: "There is always a keen demand for white kittens,
either as pretty pets or, if with correct-coloured eyes, for breeding purposes, and, doubtless,
when more encouragement is given to this beautiful variety, there will be an increase of
fanciers of the white cat, whose praises have been sung in fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and by
novelists who have a weakness for describing interiors with a beautiful white Persian cat
reclining on the hearthrug."
"Whereas formerly blue eyes were considered quite a rarity, now it is seldom we see any
yellow-eyed white cats exhibited at our principal shows [...] It is easy to tell whether the
baby blue eyes are likely to retain their colour or turn yellow. If at about three weeks or a
month old the blue becomes tinted with green, then surely but sadly may we make up our
minds that these kittens have not a distinguished career before them, for they will see and be
annaabi.ee 
