She washes her face and makes her toilet in the morning by instinct.

She has her peculiar instinctive ways of catching the mouse for breakfast.

She whets her appetite by holding back her meal possibly for an hour, in the meantime playing most cruelly with the pitiful mouse, letting it run and catching it again, and doing this over and over.

If she has children she attends to their training in the details of cat etiquette and custom with the utmost care, all by instinct; and the kittens instinctively respond to her attentions.

She conducts herself during the day with remarkable cleanliness of life, making arrangements which civilized man follows with admiration.