The case is different with those domestic animals which ordinarily serve no industrial end; such as pigeons, parrots and other cage-birds, cats, dogs, and fast horses.

These commonly are items of conspicuous consumption, and are therefore honorific in their nature and may legitimately be accounted beautiful.

This class of animals are conventionally admired by the body of the upper classes, while the pecuniarily lower classes--and that select minority of the leisure class among whom the rigorous canon that abjures thrift is in a measure obsolescent--find beauty in one class of animals as in another, without drawing a hard and fast line of pecuniary demarcation between the beautiful and the ugly.

In the case of those domestic animals which are honorific and are reputed beautiful, there is a subsidiary basis of merit that should be spokes of.

Apart from the birds which belong in the honorific class of domestic animals, and which owe their place in this class to their non-lucrative character alone, the animals which merit particular attention are cats, dogs, and fast horses.