Louis Wain Fact #12:
"Despite the cartoonish violence occasionally featured in his illustrations, Louis Wain took animal abuse very seriously. He partook in numerous animal charities, and Wain wrote on the topic, "Cats should never be struck," and his motto for the National Cat Club was “Beauty Lives by Kindness”.
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Wain was an advocate of families taking their pets with them and opposed the apparently then-common notion of letting them fend on their own while their owners were away.
See also: <a href=https://catland.distin.org/post/view/8678>You've Forgotten Me!</a>