When buying a cat of a certain cat breed there are more considerations to take into account than when buying or adopting a random bred cat. This is because there are inherited illnesses associated with certain breeds of cat, there is a greater variety of size, shape and coat type amongst the cat breeds …
The glib answer is that you shouldn’t buy a pedigree cat. This is because there are many superb random bred cats available and they are cheap or free on adoption. And they are more robust because their gene pool is vast compared to the narrow gene pools of many pedigree cats. However, keeping a …
This is a huge and handsome Maine Coon. His name is Gizmo. He wins lots of prizes at cat show which is predictable as he is so special. His size is slightly unreal. When he behaves like a cat and swats the cat tease held by the judge, Jean-Marc Lagarde from France, it seems …
Ashera GD. An F1 Savannah This is the top of the range cat in the Lifestyle Pets Inc. stable (aka Allerca Cats). Believed to be an F1 Savannah cat as the appearance is identical. The F1 Savannah is to a certain extent hypoallergenic which fits in nicely with the claims by Allerca Cats. This …
When we describe a cat as “hypoallergenic” we do not mean that that cat is guaranteed to cause no allergic reaction in people because the word “hypoallergenic” refers to a sliding scale. The prefix “hypo” means “less than” so the most hypoallergenic cat is the cat that produces the least amount of the cat …
What is it like to live with a wild cat hybrid? How difficult is it? What are the consequences including the wider consequences? Do they behave as Carole Baskin says, namely in a way which makes it impossible to enjoy their company? Carole is the owner and chief executive of Big Cat Rescue (BCR). …
This page, written for children, shows the sizes of cats of the world, wild & domestic. I show the weights of some domestic cat breeds and typical domestic cats together with the sizes of all the wild cat species. The size is based on weight but I also show lengths for all the wild …
Sometimes it is nice to look at some funny cat pictures as a respite from the serious stuff. Here is a small selection with a few comments. You may have seen some before. Put a harness on a cat that has never worn a harness and what is likely to happen? The cat rolls …
