In various countries on the African continent including Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya, people believe in a mystery spotted cat which is a leopard/lion hybrid. In Rwanda they call this mystery cat ‘Ikimizi’. In Uganda they are called Ntararago and in Kenya they are called Marozi. The Ikimizi is said to have a spotted gray …
Maneki-neko literally means “beckoning cat”. It is a popular good luck charm placed at the entrance of businesses or homes to welcome good luck into the building. You’ve no doubt seen them if you have visited Japan and you see them in Chinatowns but apparently it is Japanese in origin. It is a very …
Freya is part of Viking history and a Norse goddess of war, love and sex. She was one of the most beautiful women in the cosmos with her blue-eyes and blonde hair. She travelled in a chariot drawn through the heavens by a pair of magnificent cats. Why were cats pulling her chariot? These …
Introduction: I have specified “domestic cats” in the title for a reason. Domestic cats have different characters to their wildcat ancestors. Although there is an overlap and great similarities, with respect to the topics in this article there are differences which you can pick up in the 10-point list below. Domestic cats are solitary …
The Cactus Cat is not a domestic cat that likes to perch on top of one of those beautiful American cactuses that you see in the wilderness (and I have seen a cat doing that by the way) but a legendary cat created by the frontiersman of the American West in the 19th century …
The experts say that this is a new species of small wild cat living in the Asco Valley, Corsica but the animal behaves like a domestic cat (if not tranquillised) and looks like a hybridised European wildcat.
Is the half-cat a product of photo-editing or a genetic mutation? At least one person, a scientist, believed that it is a mutation and wrote a book about it. He died in a fall from a cliff. The manuscript of his book on the half-cat was in his rucksack. The book is to be …
by Giselle (Mexico) This is my beloved 8 year old cat, Mankey Mexico is a country with a lot of traditions and legends and some of them involve felids. We can find stories about jaguars and their majesty, in fact, among mexicas (an ancient civilization from the central zone of Mexico also known as …
