Lulu – an F2 (East) African Wildcat

Rafiki was half East African wildcat. Orange, with longer back legs, sleek ,slim. In Africa he got what was called "Cheetah's disease" & couldn't move his back legs. After corticone, he was OK, travelled to the US, lived to l9, hunted mice until l7.Walked our kids to the neighborhood school & sat on the window sill. (Did not graduate however) Preferred to skip out and take food from neighbor's houses.

Thanks, I am better, but it will be a few days still.

Diana.

Hi Diana, no problems but get well soon and I look forward to hearing from you. I am in the USA right now but go back tomorrow.

Hello Michael -

Glad you enjoyed the site.

I'm currently recovering from a bit of stomach problems, and will email you tomorrow!

Diana.

Hi Diana, I am very pleased that you have agreed to write a bit for this site. I like your work. Please email me here:

mjbmeister [at] gmail.com

to discuss the matter a bit more. I want to pay you so we need to discuss that too. The email address is disguised to prevent spammers using it.

Regards
Michael

Michael -

I would be pleased to write some pieces on cats - wild and domestic - in Africa and also in Egypt, where I lived and worked for a number of years.

You may be interested to see what I do here in Burundi, as Director of a National Livestock Program. This is the site that I maintain:

http://burundigoats.tripod.com

- and see this link, for some of the popular articles that I've written on small livestock:

http://burundigoats.tripod.com/Tropical_Emphasis/tropical_emphasis.html

Looking forward to hearing from you,

diana.

Diana, I would love you to stay in touch with Pictures of Cats.org. I don't know your circumstances but it would be nice if you would consider writing some stuff for the website for payment.

Obviously that depends on a number of things. But the situation with respect to the domestic and wild cats in Africa interests me as I am normally only able to discuss the domestic cat in UK, America and occasionally Europe. So this is a fresh area. You might have first hand knowledge and experiences of the wild cats in Africa.

Anyway, I wish you well.

Michael

Hello to you, too. You have a lovely site.

Here in Burundi, the only wild cat that is still numerous is the civet. They are numerous, and are trapped both for their fur as well as for use in traditional medicines.

Diana