What affects us affects cats
The white lion cub and the white tiger cub are often the major attractions at zoos. You’ll have to go to a zoo to see one because they don’t occur in the wild anymore. They occur at zoos such as Paradise Wildlife Park, UK, because they are money makers and zoo staff closely inbred …
I wonder if cats have color preferences with a particular liking for black. We might think our cat has a preference for a particular colour because she always lies on clothes of that colour whenever she can. However, it maybe that clothes of a particular colour are the ones that smell most of you, …
This is the story of a serval with a mental health problem called pica, which is made all the more strange because the story comes from the magazine of the Feline Conservation Federation (FCF). FCF is a group of wild cat species experts and the articles in the magazine are often quite technical and …
There will be no more new cat breeds. The number may even shrink. Some people would say the numbers should shrink. I believe that we can say with some certainty that we have more or less reached saturation point with respect to the number of different cat breeds. There are at least 104 cat …
The article I wrote about “The Real Turkish Angora” has been published and expanded upon in a Turkish cat magazine. Naturally, it is in the Turkish language. Here is part of the email from The Angora Cat association informing me of this welcome development: Do you remember you wrote a short article about ”The …
The Chartreux is a breed of cat that is probably best know for three things: A long history going back many hundreds of years; Being almost unchanged over these years (this is what breeders want) and…. Being French. Background and History The Chartreux is France’s only purebred pedigree cat and it is a part …
Yes and no. Yes, if you want the perfect modern Manx cat as dictated by the breed standard (at Feb 2013). But the original Manx cats didn’t look like this. As a result, unnaturally long hind legs that are much longer than the forelegs is a breeder’s “refinement”. It is a false creation. In …
Selling kittens and cats on Gumtree needs to stop. Have you seen the phrase “front lined and Panacur’d” before? Well, I hadn’t until today when I visited Gumtree, a British website which is a bit like Craigslist in the USA. Well, in case you didn’t guess, “front lined and Panacur’d” refers to applying the …
