What affects us affects cats
by Joyce Marble (West Bridgewater MA) Bizzare Tail This is Kippling and I would love to know how one of these cats ended up with a tail like hers. She always carries her tail curled up over her back. If she is relaxing her super long tail falls normal. I have looked every where …
by Kara Kelsey (Charleston, SC, USA) Bandit at 9 ½ months and 12.3 lbs – photo added later. Thanks Kara. I have a black and white male cat that has all of the marking now of a Maine Coon. When I first adopted him and his sister at 5 weeks they just looked like …
by Michael (London) Zendada Sun Dog – ZenDada Bengals – photo by Julie Gracie Moseley The Bengal Cat Jump is something we should factor in when adopting such an athletic cat. Bengals aren’t just very attractive cats but they are very able physically as well. In human terms they are the feline equivalent of …
by Chris (Delaware County, PA) The Big Baby Felix in a Small Picture! Sometime ago Felix was displaying somewhat odd behavior. He would lie in front of the pantry and meow throughout the night. One morning as I was going to work (5am.), I decided to look in the pantry to see if something …
by Chris McHenry (Pennslyvania) King of the house! We took Felix in about two and a half years ago. When I first saw Felix (about two months old) he was only a kitten and appeared to have been abused (burnt whiskers). He was living under my neighbors porch and my neighbor was not a …
Photo by Tscherno (Flickr) The answer is no but their ability to see colour is limited. The cat’s retina is made up of two types of light sensitive cells; rods and cones. The rods enable the cat to see black, white and shades of grey. The cones provide the color vision. There are many …
Do I have an albino cat? This page aims to help answer that question. What is Albinism? Visually, white animals look very different to their normally colored counterparts. However, the actual difference inside the animal in very small indeed. White animals of a certain species are the same species as normally colored animals. So …
by Liz (Michigan) Albino Siamese I am awaiting genetic test results to confirm albinism. Elfine is pure white. She has blue eyes with a pinkish rim. I can’t get a good pic of her eyes as she usually closes them when I snap the pic. The genetics for coat color is very complicated. It …
