In ancient Egypt cat mummies were offered to the gods for a favour or a sign of the person’s gratitude to the gods or God. A recent CT scan of a cat mummy indicates to some researchers that priests were … Continue reading →
City administrators in Rochelle, Illinois are under fire after a Facebook post on Thursday stated a plan to trap and kill feral cats. The post on Facebook: City of Rochelle, Illinois states (along with the first sentence being updated) “Update: … Continue reading →
This is about domestic cat history. The title is a Google search term but misleading because it implies that there is a creature called ‘Grimalkin Cat’. There is not. Grimalkin is a 17th century word meaning ‘a cat’, especially an … Continue reading →
“The dramatic decrease in value of domestic cats over a 1000 years feeds cat abuse” – Michael Several statutes (laws made by government) specifically mentioned domestic cats showing how valuable they were for their mice catching skills. One Welsh statute … Continue reading →
A tribal chief who’s name was Colocolo connects a Chilean football club and a wild cat species, the Pampas cat. ‘Colocolo means ‘mountain cat’ in the Mapuche language which is spoken in south-central Chile and west central Argentina. Leader The … Continue reading →
There is an interesting post on the reddit.com website by a linguist who is an expert in the Native American languages and how to pronounce the words. You can read his post below. It is interesting that when Native North … Continue reading →
The voyeuristic fascination with domestic cats grooming their anal area started a long time ago, well before the Middle Ages but these illustrations from books tell us a bit about the feelings of people towards domestic cats from the 5th … Continue reading →
When was the first cat food made? This is a question which must refer to food made specifically for domestic cats in large quanities i.e. by a commercial manufacturer. We have a date for that but it is possible that … Continue reading →
Most of now know of the superstitious nonsense that cats are evil spirits because their bodies are occupied by an evil fiend . This crazy link between witchcraft – which itself is a fiction – and domestic cats blighted the … Continue reading →
There is a common misbelief that the Ancient Egyptians first domesticated the cat. They did not because it happened thousands of years earlier.
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