What affects us affects cats
This is a Pixie-bob from the Legend Tales breeder. They have been breeding the Pixie-bob since 1996. They call the cat breed ‘the Golden Retriever of Cats’. That must mean the Pixie-bob likes playing fetch. Some cats do. I have a page on the breed which you can read by clicking here. It is …
Trying to take out a patent on a cat breed is interesting and very strange at the same time. I have never heard of it before. What are Patents? Think of devices and machines and not animals for a start off. Apple, the world’s biggest company, have been doing battle with Samsung over claims …
It so happens that this polyfooted mackerel tabby cat is a Pixie-bob, er.. or an American Bobtail! Is this a mackerel tabby coat or a spotted tabby coat? Lying down the coat is striped. Standing up the coat is spotted. Is the coat silver, grey or grey brown? You can see how it gets …
This is a really nice polydactyl tabby cat picture by Helmi Flick. Octavia is a beautiful polydactyl tabby cat. People call them polycats. And they have polyfeet! The polydactyl world throws up some nice terminology. For people new to polydactyl cats, it means cats with extra toes. Robinson’s Genetics calls it “polydactyly”. They say …
Pixie-bob cat – Photo copyright © Helmi Flick
Pixie-bob cat – Photo copyright © Helmi Flick
Pixie-bob cat “Proud Foot”-Photo copyright © Helmi Flick
Above: ‘Proud Foot’- Pixie bob cat photo ©copyright Helmi Flick Introduction This cat is meant to look wild1, as wild as possible it seems but it is entirely domestic – there are no wildcat genes. The coat, although a tabby one should look like a wild cat tabby coat and not the refined, enhanced, …
