What affects us affects cats
This is a picture of a cute gray-and-white bicolour Kinkalow kitten. It is quite hard to spot this breed unless you are familiar with it. It is all in the ears. The original webpage on which this cat is featured does not refer to this kitten as a Kinkalow but a Munchkin. They are …
This is a story from the early days of the cat fancy when things were not quite so sophisticated. At the Crystal Palace cat show of 1900 the ‘Madagascar Cat’ was exhibited in the foreign class. I guess the ‘foreign class’ meant domestic cats from countries other than England. It means something different today: …
Because his wife, Sandy, was severely allergic to cats, John Spevak and Sandy decided very early on that Skyy, their beloved cat companion, should live outside the home his entire life. And he lived for 18 years. It is a novel approach which will please some people while others might disagree with it. This …
This article concerns what might be a vital point in the world of dating and long term relationships. On the girls ask guys website a young woman of 23 says that a man of 40 has shown interest in her. However, she is asking for advice because he has 8 cats and he talks …
This is a cat ‘breed’ that might have happened but it never did. It is also described as the black-headed cat or Mohrenkopf which is German for ‘Moor’s head’. Today morenkopf means a small chocolate-covered cream cake! Enough, I digress. This is a cat that was very rarely seen which could have been picked …
NEWS AND VIEWS (OPINION): a school in Texas, USA is in the news because teachers set a quiz for some of their students which included a question about cat and dog meat. The teachers who set this multiple answer quiz have been placed on administrative leave until the matter has been investigated. You can …
Historians at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) studied the inbred monarchs of England and Scotland from 990 to 1800. They were inbred because marriages at that time were unions of convenience both politically and strategically. The most inbred monarch in the study was Charles II of Spain. His parents were uncle and niece. …
This is a question for a veterinarian or scientist so what I’ll do is cite some stories about cats being cured of diabetes. Although individual cats respond in different ways, in these examples the cats were cured of diabetes by transferring from dry cat food to wet. That, in a nutshell, was the cure. …
